Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
The mission of public education is to provide all students with a high-quality education that will enable them to function successfully in an interdependent, multiethnic, multicultural, and rapidly changing world. But racism and its outgrowth of hate and bigotry are thoroughly sabotaging our nation's efforts to provide a good education for all children. All students, teachers, and administrators bring with them to the educational setting the experiences and feelings of their cultural reality. All of these realities have been affected by the functions of racism, whether in positive or negative ways. Thus, we find many of our institutions of learning full of an explosive tension of riot proportion. Racism is a sizable foe as it now wears a more subtle look than at any point in history. A reeducation, therefore, may be our best hope for breaking racism's chains. Reeducation can be the process by which the conscious and unconscious expressions of racism are revealed. Once revealed, students and educators can then find ways to deal with and change the way racism affects our lives.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
2
Issue
2
First Page
122
Last Page
123
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1991 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Johniken, Daniel
(1991)
"Issue Four: Coping with and Addressing Racism in Our Educational Institutions [Johniken],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 2:
No.
2, Article 31.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol2/iss2/31
