Research Synopsis

It has been said that education absent mindful-inclusion of the whole, will lead to elitism and entitled insularity, which enables the higher educated to “trample over the masses.”    However, and as this research will show, with mindful-inclusion at the fore of higher learning, three 20th century schools—the Harlem Renaissance (School), Staatliches Bauhaus and Black Mountain College (BMC)—in different regions of the Western world, became the chief form givers for art and culture in the modern age by employing new moral teachings and pedagogies espoused largely and respectively by John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Gropius, Henry L. Kamphoefner, Alain Locke, Albert Einstein, and W.E.B Du Bois.  While examining the pedagogic and moralist impact these individuals had on said schools, the research simultaneously looks at the impact the Two World Wars had on the schools, and also how and why each school influenced one another in facilitating cultural reform  and renaissance with enduring global implications.