Our Race Is Humanity [microform] / Freda Mary Oben
- Bib ID:
- 5254757
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Oben, Freda Mary
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED089306
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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Once the black student is introduced to the charisma of all literature through a reading of his own great writers, with whom he can identify, he can also be fired with motivation for the entire realm of literature. If black literature and the new black art are brought into the classroom, the fears and prejudices between blacks and whites will lessen and trust between them will grow. There is much joy to be found in the beauty and strength now unfolding in the black consciousness, in the developing artistic genius, and in the as yet unrealized vast potential of mind and spirit. If the youth is to be educated, so must the adult be. This implies an openness on the part of the teacher if we are to conquer the gap in communication by a never ending search for the experience of humanity conveyed in the art form. Through the medium of literature, the teacher penetrates and breaks rigidity and darkness within the student, nourishing instead enlightenment, inspiration, and hope. This is possible only through the teacher's own humanity, demonstrated by an awareness of life, an attitude of philosophic doubt in the search for truth, and a grasp of the beauty of spirit within his students. (LL)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (63rd, Philadelphia, November 22-24, 1973).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1973
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