African-Centered Education

African-Centered Education

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  • Author: Kmt G. Shockley
  • Publisher: Myers Education Press
  • ISBN: 1975502116
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

This volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners to address the theory and practice of African-centered education. The contributors provide (1) perspectives on the history, methods, successes and challenges of African-centered education, (2) discussions of the efforts that are being made to counter the miseducation of Black children, and (3) prescriptions for—and analyses of—the way forward for Black children and Black communities. The authors argue that Black children need an education that moves them toward leading and taking agency within their own communities. They address several areas that capture the essence of what African-centered education is, how it works, and why it is a critical imperative at this moment. Those areas include historical analyses of African-centered education; parental perspectives; strategies for working with Black children; African-centered culture, science and STEM; culturally responsive curriculum and instruction; and culturally responsive resources for teachers and school leaders.


The Afrocentric School [a Blueprint]

The Afrocentric School [a Blueprint]

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  • Author: Nah Dove
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781942774051
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

The Afrocentric School, a Blueprint is a handbook that guides the prospective educationist, parent, student, and reader to understand African cultural history from an Afrocentric theoretical perspective. Africa is placed in the center of the African experience from the ancient times until now. Who were we? This book endeavors to answer that question. This handbook humbly offers some ideas based on ancient African principles that relate to the critical role of teaching our children. Grounded in the love of African humanity-women, men, girls, and boys, this handbook counters anti-African and anti-Black beliefs that have been propounded over centuries. This work expresses the recognition that there exists a range of African cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors just as there is amongst the different peoples who conquered Africa. In this work, the cultural legacy and heritage of Africa is embraced with the aim of providing adequate knowledge to achieve a reawakening of the cultural memory. The handbook provides a foundational curriculum for children aged 3-15 years, and its standards are based upon expectations developed from a baseline study on child development and education. The curriculum can be particularly helpful for those interested in or who are already teaching children of African descent; it can appeal to those who have established Afrocentric schools, those who are endeavoring to do so, those who wish to amplify an existing curriculum, those who want to teach their children, or those who simply wish to expand their knowledge.


African-Centered Pedagogy

African-Centered Pedagogy

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  • Author: Peter C. Murrell Jr.
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791452912
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational achievement of African American children.


Alchemy of the Soul

Alchemy of the Soul

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  • Author: Joyce Piert
  • Publisher: Black Studies and Critical Thinking
  • ISBN: 9781433126994
  • Category : African American students
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Joyce Piert offers this book as a critical resource to parents, educators, potential teachers, community leaders, and policymakers who are seriously pondering the question of how to provide all students with a holistic educational experience.


African-centered Education

African-centered Education

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  • Author: Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

This book legitimizes the need for African-centered education at an early age in child development.


Nationbuilding

Nationbuilding

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  • Author: Kwame Agyei Akoto
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781732179004
  • Category : African Americans
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229


African Centered Rites of Passage and Education

African Centered Rites of Passage and Education

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  • Author: Lathardus Goggins (II.)
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 102

Discussing the correlation between one's self-conception and one's academic performance, this book explains African centered rites and the rituals and ceremonies behind them.


The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom

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  • Author: Joyce E. King
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317445015
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 187

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains and illustrates how an African worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve African heritage and cultural knowledge which have been historically discounted and decoupled from teaching and learning. The book has three objectives: To exemplify how each of the emancipatory pedagogies it delineates and demonstrates is supported by African worldview concepts and parallel knowledge, general understandings, values, and claims that are produced by that worldview To make African Diasporan cultural connections visible in the curriculum through numerous examples of cultural continuities––seen in the actions of Diasporan groups and individuals––that consistently exhibit an African worldview or cultural framework To provide teachers with content drawn from Africa’s legacy to humanity as a model for locating all students––and the cultures and groups they represent––as subjects in the curriculum and pedagogy of schooling This book expands the Afrocentric praxis presented in the authors’ "Re-membering" History in Teacher and Student Learning by combining "re-membered" (democratized) historical content with emancipatory pedagogies that are connected to an African cultural platform.


An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory

An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory

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  • Author: Jawanza Kunjufu
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

Challenges Ruby Payne's theories about the impact of class differences and economics on teaching and learning, putting forward other factors as better predictors of student performance. Kunjufu points to success stories in schools that serve low-income students. His refutation of Payne's popular teacher-training program asserts that teacher expectations, time on task, and the principal's leadership are the main factors in determining educational outcomes at a school. Abandoning Payne's framework of teacher-student income disparities, racial makeup, and per-pupil expenditure, this critical analysis asserts the human component as the most powerful tool for improving education in failing schools. --From publisher description.


African American Males and Education

African American Males and Education

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  • Author: T. Elon Dancy II
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1617359432
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 222

African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in education. For instance, differential access to social networks still visibly cluster by race, continuing the work of systemic privilege by promoting outcome inequalities in education and society. The issues defining the relationship between African American males and education remain complex. Although there has been substantial discussion about the plight of African American male participants and personnel in education, only modest attempts have been made to center analysis of identity and identity intersections in the discourse. Additionally, more attention to African American male teachers and faculty is needed in light of their unique cultural experiences in educational settings and expectations to mentor and/or socialize other African Americans, particularly males.