The 19th Century saw great change in society through the industrial revolution; education answered these changes through changing roles like those of gender. The 20th century saw even greater changes through African American students than ever before. Society and schools are a symbiotic relationship, at moments society gives more to schooling and at others school gives to society, but both push the other further. Society and education both changed each other in economics, gender and African American culture, in the 19th and 20th century.
The 19th century was full of new change in society that would eventually lead to new changes in schooling. Society was no longer farms spaced far apart from each other and the small towns nearby, but was now …show more content…
Women were now able to get an education because society had the desire for women to build educated homes and men. Education in turn gave women the tools to obtain power, such as the right to vote. Women could now impact their local politics because of this education, they also moved to suffrage movements. Rury explains, “The high school, in this case, proved to be quite alluring to teenage girls, especially those from ‘middling’ households, marking a major shift in American culture.( Rury, 90)” Women could also move outside the home. They now had the ability to work outside the home. Society constructed an appropriate need for schooling without trying to get a social change, but the education eventually led to a change in society. The move from the home to the work force changed society; it also changed schooling, as women started to fill the role of teacher. Teachers were supposed to be a republican mother, duties that were expected of a woman in the house were allowed to be filled in the public domain because of it was considered a woman’s duties, like caring for children. Women changed largely in the 19th Century because of …show more content…
African Americans were recently free and trying to gain access to the same rights that white men had for centuries. One of the highest items on this list was education. African Americans knew that education was the way to achieve something in American and worked hard to get education. Rury says, “African American schooling in the latter 19th century provides an instance when hard work did not result in social change. Virulent racism effectively negated any potential gains in culture and human capital that formal education offed, and sharply restricted the benefits of social capital to the meager resources of Black communities.(Rury, 108) This example explored that schooling could not overcome society. School gave African Americans the tools to normally succeed in America, but Society did not allow African Americans to use these tools to get further in life. Schooling had changed without the movement of society, but what schooling could not do is change the racism that was deeply seated in American society. Society was blocking African Americans from using human capital to change it. The book explains the poor access African Americans had to higher education, “During the Progressive Era fewer 5% of Black youth were enrolled at the secondary level, most of them in private schools supported by tuition, local donations and Northern Philanthropy.( Rury, 147)” This explains how little African Americans were able
The 19th century was full of new change in society that would eventually lead to new changes in schooling. Society was no longer farms spaced far apart from each other and the small towns nearby, but was now …show more content…
Women were now able to get an education because society had the desire for women to build educated homes and men. Education in turn gave women the tools to obtain power, such as the right to vote. Women could now impact their local politics because of this education, they also moved to suffrage movements. Rury explains, “The high school, in this case, proved to be quite alluring to teenage girls, especially those from ‘middling’ households, marking a major shift in American culture.( Rury, 90)” Women could also move outside the home. They now had the ability to work outside the home. Society constructed an appropriate need for schooling without trying to get a social change, but the education eventually led to a change in society. The move from the home to the work force changed society; it also changed schooling, as women started to fill the role of teacher. Teachers were supposed to be a republican mother, duties that were expected of a woman in the house were allowed to be filled in the public domain because of it was considered a woman’s duties, like caring for children. Women changed largely in the 19th Century because of …show more content…
African Americans were recently free and trying to gain access to the same rights that white men had for centuries. One of the highest items on this list was education. African Americans knew that education was the way to achieve something in American and worked hard to get education. Rury says, “African American schooling in the latter 19th century provides an instance when hard work did not result in social change. Virulent racism effectively negated any potential gains in culture and human capital that formal education offed, and sharply restricted the benefits of social capital to the meager resources of Black communities.(Rury, 108) This example explored that schooling could not overcome society. School gave African Americans the tools to normally succeed in America, but Society did not allow African Americans to use these tools to get further in life. Schooling had changed without the movement of society, but what schooling could not do is change the racism that was deeply seated in American society. Society was blocking African Americans from using human capital to change it. The book explains the poor access African Americans had to higher education, “During the Progressive Era fewer 5% of Black youth were enrolled at the secondary level, most of them in private schools supported by tuition, local donations and Northern Philanthropy.( Rury, 147)” This explains how little African Americans were able