Sociopedagogy: A Move beyond Multiculturalism toward Stronger Community

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From as far back as the 17th century. the

United States has been questioning the role that ethnicity plays within schools. In the 1640s, desegregation of the first public schools in Massachusetts and Virginia was being experienced for the first time in our history (Banks, 1993). In the 1800s, African-American families sought funding and received it from the city of Boston to allow African Americans to establish separate schools. In the South, separate schools were a result of post-Civil War White legislators. Though the schools were separated, they were not equal.

It was not until the book The MisEducation of the Negro, written by Woodson ( 1933), that a formulation for …