https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac en-us 2019-02-27 19:43:42 UTC 2019-03-03 22:35:13 UTC hello@padlet.com kmfrazier https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336121398 Mary Wollstonecraft is another individual who was influential in the fight for equality for women. Her passion for women to be educated beyond traditional gender roles. She worked very hard to push traditional education institutions to accept women. She felt educating women was key to strengthening society as a whole as an educated woman would be a great marriage partner as well as a mother devoted to ensuring her children were properly educated as well. She felt society as a whole would benefit from this. I cannot argue with her logic as women who are secure in their education definitely provide a well-rounded environment for their children to learn and excel.]]> 2019-02-27 19:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336121398 kmfrazier https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336121617 Froebel's philosophies led to modern-day kindergarten. He was also a leader in developing a curriculum that focused on the child experiencing the world through their senses while increasing their social skills. Today, kindergarten teachers use many center based activities, games, stories and songs to expose their children to the kindergarten concepts while focusing on social/language skills to ensure they are well-rounded. Without kindergarten, many students who were not privileged enough to experience a preschool program could enter the school system without well-rounded social skills or a proper foundation to academic skills.]]> 2019-02-27 19:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336121617 kmfrazier https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336121869 Women in America are indebted to Jane Addams for her work for women's rights. She challenged Victorian society in their perception that women's professions were limited to teaching and their secondary education should be focused on creating wives and mothers. She also worked very hard to increase awareness for multicultural education as she opposed the idea that children must give up their cultures to assimilate into American education. Her contributions can be seen to this day as women are not restricted to traditional roles in the workplace and are educated with the same rigor that men are.

]]> 2019-02-27 19:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336121869 kmfrazier https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336122025  Du Bois believed in education for all African Americans and was an activist for desegregation of schools. His influence in the civil rights movement cannot be argued or question. He advocated for desegregation in other areas of society as well, including the workforce as he recognized the struggles that many African-Americans experienced between the World Wars as the need for workers across the United States increased and many African-Americans traveled from the south to fulfill these needs. He was instrumental in founding the NAACP whose influence we can see to this day in the continuous fight for equality for people of color in all aspects of life. From a special education standpoint, I have to recognize how differently special education could look in today's society without the work that Du Bois put into desegregation. Would my students be entitled to their education without key law cases like Brown v Board of Education of Topeka?

 ]]> 2019-02-27 19:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/336122025 kmfrazier https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/337287005 Gutek, G.L. (2011). Historical and philosophical foundations of education: A biographical introduction.  Boston, MS: Pearson.]]> 2019-03-03 22:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kmfrazier/qtmugcgx13ac/wish/337287005