Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences

Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences
Author: Joseph Mbele
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 141162341X

This book discusses differences between African and American culture, to help prevent cultural miscommunications which might poison or ruin relationships between Africans and Americans. I am lucky to have lived in both Africa and America, and I feel priviledged and obliged to share my views and experiences with others.

African Americans and Africa

African Americans and Africa
Author: Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300244916

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.

Chickens in the Bus

Chickens in the Bus
Author: Joseph Mbele
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781312159563

"Chickens in the Bus" is a sequel to my popular book, "Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences." The latter, widely read and also featured in college and university programs from the USA to China, led readers and me to think about a sequel. With additional insights into issues raised in "Africans and Americans," "Chickens in the Bus" addresses new topics, such as child raising and the cultural dimension of business between Africans and Americans.

Because of the Kids

Because of the Kids
Author: Jennifer E. Obidah
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807740125

This book details the story of two teacher-researchers--Jennifer, who is African American, and Karen, who is White--as they set out on a collaborative three year study to explore the impact of racial and cultural differences in Karen's urban middle school classroom. They describe how they learn to confront and deal with the challenges they face so that they can work together. Their study presents the difficulties and importance of collaborations between teachers from different racial and cultural backgrounds as well as insights on how race and culture evolve in teacher-student interactions.

Living in Color

Living in Color
Author: Randy Woodley
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830878987

"We would never give Picasso a paintbrush and only one color of paint, and expect a masterpiece," writes Randy Woodley. "We would not give Beethoven a single piano key and say, 'Play us a concerto.' Yet we limit our Creator in just these ways." Though our Christian experience is often blandly monochromatic, God intends for us to live in dynamic, multihued communities that embody his vibrant creativity. Randy Woodley, a Keetowah Cherokee, casts a biblical, multiethnic vision for people of every nation, tribe and tongue. He carefully unpacks how Christians should think about racial and cultural identity, demonstrating that ethnically diverse communities have always been God's intent for his people. Woodley gives practical insights for how we can relate to one another with sensitivity, contextualize the gospel, combat the subtleties of racism, and honor one another's unique contributions to church and society. Along the way, he reckons with difficult challenges from our racially painful history and offers hope for healing and restoration. With profound wisdom from his own Native American heritage and experience, Woodley's voice adds a distinctive perspective to contemporary discussions of racial reconciliation and multiethnicity. Here is a biblical vision for unity in diversity.

Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World

Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World
Author: Dr. Leo Parvis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1411658426

No one in this country is untouched by the impact of diversity. Yet, as diverse as diversity is, are too the many different emotions and attitudes evoked by diversity. As a nation, we are not well equipped to deal with the swirling transitions that are converging on us on a daily basis because of the nature of being the most diverse country in the world.This text will well serve the purpose for many who decide to learn and teach the fundamentals of cultural diversity. It will be beneficial for college students, high school juniors and seniors, and organizations whose ever-changing workforce leads to the necessity of educating employees on how to deal with the diversity of employees and customers in a positive manner. This timely publication is filled with current and relevant examples taken from pop culture: from TV shows, song lyrics, and poetry of the times. These excerpts make this publication much more interesting and easy for the reader to relate to and understand.

Canciones populares y literatura de África Oriental

Canciones populares y literatura de África Oriental
Author: Aaron Louis Rosenberg
Publisher: El Colegio de Mexico AC
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 6074625816

Este estudio es un replanteamiento de la relación entre canciones y literatura en África oriental. Se examinan, en términos comparativos, las obras literarias y musicales de esta parte del continente con el fin de determinar y describir los caminos a partir de los cuales tales formas de la expresión creativa reflejan y transforman caminos prevalecientes y medios de formación de identidad de las personas cuyas vidas se extienden a través de varias "fronteras" y que desarrollan sentidos "superculturales" de sí mismos. El autor se basa en una extensa investigación de campo, así como en una multitud de entrevistas. La lectura atenta de las canciones y la literatura hace de este libro un estudio convincente para estudiantes de música y literatura africanas, y el análisis de las identidades africanas puede ser realmente para los estudiosos del nacionalismo tanto en África como en el mundo.

Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making

Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making
Author: Lobat Asadi
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1648023282

Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making, addresses issues in curriculum and instruction, such as the lack of Black teachers, minority representation, and mentorship. The book arose from a serial interpretation of five published narrative inquiries that pinpointed complexities lived in a teacher knowledge community at T.P. Yaeger Middle School, a campus located in the fourth largest urban center in America. The inquiry initially resulted in a documentary-style presentation at an educational conference using performance narrative inquiry as an arts-based method to recount the research. In Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making, the process of researchers turned actors is unraveled by looking at the lived experiences and identifying the embodied knowledge of teachers in different content areas including Physical Education, Music, Teaching English as a Second Language, Mathematics, and Reading. The authors use parallel stories, counter stories, story constellations, musical narrative inquiry, performance narrative inquiry and other narrative means of sense-making as they examine how they may relate to those stories. Ethical research dilemmas, including the how and why behind each author’s choice to burrow into difficult topics such as race, gender and conflict resolution are revealed. By unpacking the hidden curriculum, examining value creation and by revealing isolated relational experiences of participants and researchers, Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making instantiates and outlines how truth and knowledge may be formed in educational settings through intertwining narrative inquiry, teacher knowledge and aesthetic ways of knowing.

Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes

Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes
Author: Tonya Huber
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607523973

Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry—Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction (JCI~>CI). Founding Editor Tonya Huber initiated the JCI~>CI in 1997, as a refereed journal committed to publishing educational scholarship and research of professionals in graduate study. The journal was distinguished by its requirement that the scholarship be the result of the first author’s graduate research—according to Cabell’s Directory, the first journal to do so. Equally important, the third issue of each volume targeted wide representation of cultures and world regions. “Current thinking on ...” written by members of the JCI~>CI Editorial Advisory Board explores state-of-the-art topics related to curriculum inquiry. Illustrations, photography (e.g., Sebastião Salgado’s Workers in vol. 2), collage, student-generated art/artifacts, and full-color art enhance cutting-edge methodologies extending educational research through Aboriginal and Native oral traditions, arts-based analysis, found poetry, data poetry, narrative, and case study foci on liberatory pedagogy and social justice action research.

Notes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Notes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Author: Joseph Mbele
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557181291

This is a study guide on Chinua Achebe's famous novel, Things Fall Apart. I decided to publish it after noting that an earlier and shorter online version was popular among students and teachers across the world.