African-Centered Education

African-Centered Education
Author: Kmt G. Shockley
Publisher: Myers Education Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1975502116

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.

African-Centered Pedagogy

African-Centered Pedagogy
Author: Peter C. Murrell Jr.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0791489027

What can teachers, administrators, families, and communities do to create schools that provide rich learning experiences for African American children? Based on a critical reinterpretation of several key educational frameworks, African-Centered Pedagogy is a practical guide to accomplished teaching. Murrell suggests integrating the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a unified system of instruction, bringing to light those practices that already exist and linking them to contemporary ideas and innovations that concern effective practice in African American communities. This is then applied through a case study analysis of a school seeking to incorporate the unified theory and embrace African-centered practice. Murrell argues that key educational frameworks—although currently ineffective with African American children—hold promise if reinterpreted.

African American Males and Education

African American Males and Education
Author: T. Elon Dancy II
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1617359432

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.

African Centered Rites of Passage and Education

African Centered Rites of Passage and Education
Author: Lathardus Goggins (II.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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.

Self-Taught

Self-Taught
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807888974

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.

Alchemy of the Soul

Alchemy of the Soul
Author: Joyce Piert
Publisher: Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: African American students
ISBN: 9781433126994

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.

Nationbuilding

Nationbuilding
Author: Kwame Agyei Akoto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781732179004

African-centered Education

African-centered Education
Author: Haki R. Madhubuti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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

African-Centered Schooling in Theory and Practice

African-Centered Schooling in Theory and Practice
Author: Cheryl S. Ajirotutu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2000-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0313004919

Although schools with an African-centered educational focus have existed for over 200 years, they have most often been independent institutions. Within the past few years, the idea of incorporating an African and African-American cultural orientation in public schools has been explored. This exploration has proceeded in a number of ways: in Baltimore, MD, African-centered education was instituted in selected classrooms within an otherwise traditional school. In Milwaukee, and in other cities such as Detroit, MI, and Washington, DC, African-centered programs have been implemented in selected schools.

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom
Author: Joyce E. King
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317445015

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.