Africanizing The School Curriculum

Author : Anthony Afful-Broni,Jophus Anamuah-Mensah,Kolawole Raheem,George J. Sefa Dei
Publisher : Myers Education Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781975504618

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Africanizing the School Curriculum by Anthony Afful-Broni,Jophus Anamuah-Mensah,Kolawole Raheem,George J. Sefa Dei Pdf

Connecting cultures to educational settings is an essential component of critical pedagogy. This book addresses many of the key issues and challenges in decolonizing the African school curriculum. It highlights important philosophical arguments on the challenges and possibilities of achieving these goals in a meaningful manner. Topics covered in the book include: operationalizing the key terms of “inclusion” and “curriculum” strategies for Africanizing the school curriculum, and the implications of local knowledge for schooling reform This book also raises a variety of key questions: how do we frame an inclusive anti-colonial African future and what is the nature of the work required to collectively arrive at that future? what education are learners of today going to receive and how will they apply it to their schooling and work lives? how do we re-fashion our work as African educators and learners to create more relevant understandings of what it means to be human? how do we challenge colonizing and imperializing relations of the academy? What are the possibilities and limits of counter-visions of education? how do we make school curricula inclusive through teaching, research and graduate training in questions of Indigeneity and multi-centric ways of knowing? The book identifies specific areas of an “inclusive/decolonized curriculum agenda” through educational programming and reform. It is essential reading to any student or teacher concerned about understanding the many facets of an African school curriculum. Perfect for courses such as: Principles of Anti-Racism Education | Anti-Colonial Thought: Pedagogical Implications | Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications | Modernization, Development and Education in African Contexts | African Systems of Thought | Introduction to African Studies

Author : Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351213219

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Heritage Knowledge in the Curriculum by Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz Pdf

Moving beyond the content integration approach of multicultural education, this text powerfully advocates for the importance of curriculum built upon authentic knowledge construction informed by the Black intellectual tradition and an African episteme. By retrieving, examining, and reconnecting the continuity of African Diasporan heritage with school knowledge, this volume aims to repair the rupture that has silenced this cultural memory in standard historiography in general and in PK-12 curriculum content and pedagogy in particular. This ethically informed curriculum approach not only allows students of African ancestry to understand where they fit in the world but also makes the accomplishments and teachings of our collective ancestors available for the benefit of all. King and Swartz provide readers with a process for making overt and explicit the values, actions, thoughts, and behaviors reflected in an African episteme that serves as the foundation for African Diasporan sociohistorical phenomenon/events. With such knowledge, teachers can conceptualize curriculum and shape instruction that locates people in all cultures as subjects with agency whose actions embody their ongoing cultural legacy.

Author : Kmt G. Shockley,Kofi Lomotey
Publisher : Myers Education Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781975502119

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African-Centered Education by Kmt G. Shockley,Kofi Lomotey Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004447943

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Curriculum Theory, Curriculum Theorising, and the Theoriser by Anonim Pdf

This book explores the complexities of curriculum studies by taking into account African perspectives of curriculum theory, curriculum theorising and the theoriser. It provides alternative pathways to the curriculum discourse in Africa by breaking traditions and experimenting on alternative approaches.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351324380

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Africanizing Knowledge by Toyin Falola Pdf

Nearly four decades ago, Terence Ranger questioned to what extent African history was actually African, and whether methods and concerns derived from Western historiography were really sufficient tools for researching and narrating African history. Despite a blossoming and branching out of Africanist scholarship in the last twenty years, that question is still haunting. The most prestigious locations for production of African studies are outside Africa itself, and scholars still seek a solution to this paradox. They agree that the ideal solution would be a flowering of institutions of higher learning within Africa which would draw not only Africanist scholars, but also financial resources to the continent. While the focus of this volume is on historical knowledge, the effort to make African scholarship "more African" is fundamentally interdisciplinary. The essays in this volume employ several innovative methods in an effort to study Africa on its own terms. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "Africanizing African History," offers several diverse methods for bringing distinctly African modes of historical discourse to the foreground in academic historical research. Part 2, "African Creative Expression in Context," presents case studies of African art, literature, music, and poetry. It attempts to strip away the exotic or primitivist aura such topics often accumulate when presented in a foreign setting in order to illuminate the social, historical, and aesthetic contexts in which these works of art were originally produced. Part 3, "Writing about Colonialism," demonstrates that the study of imperialism in Africa remains a springboard for innovative work, which takes familiar ideas about Africa and considers them within new contexts. Part 4, "Scholars and Their Work," critically examines the process of African studies itself, including the roles of scholars in the production of knowledge about Africa. This timely and thoughtful volume will be of interest to African studies scholars and students who are concerned about the ways in which Africanist scholarship might become "more African."

Author : LaGarrett J. King
Publisher : IAP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781641138444

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Perspectives of Black Histories in Schools by LaGarrett J. King Pdf

Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over the years, we have seen k- 12 Black history expand as an academic subject, which has altered research questions that deviate from whether Black history is important to know to what type of Black history knowledge and pedagogies should be cultivated in classrooms in order to present a more holistic understanding of the group’ s historical significance. Research around this subject has been stagnated, typically focusing on the subject’s tokenism and problematic status within education. We know little of the state of k-12 Black history education and the different perspectives that Black history encompasses. The book, Perspectives on Black Histories in Schools, brings together a diverse group of scholars who discuss how k-12 Black history is understood in education. The book’s chapters focus on the question, what is Black history, and explores that inquiry through various mediums including its foundation, curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and psychology. The book provides researchers, teacher educators, and historians an examination into how much k- 12 Black history has come and yet how long it still needed to go.

Author : Nah Dove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1942774052

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The Afrocentric School [a Blueprint] by Nah Dove Pdf

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.

Author : Asa G. Hilliard,Lucretia Payton-Stewart,Larry Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSC:32106013344251

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Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum by Asa G. Hilliard,Lucretia Payton-Stewart,Larry Williams Pdf

Contains workable recommendations for changing the school curriculum to include more African and African-American content.

Author : Peter C. Murrell Jr.
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791489024

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African-Centered Pedagogy by Peter C. Murrell Jr. Pdf

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.

Author : Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317445012

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The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom by Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz Pdf

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.

Author : Abul Pitre,Esrom Pitre,Ruth Ray,Twana Hilton-Pitre
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607092346

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Educating African American Students by Abul Pitre,Esrom Pitre,Ruth Ray,Twana Hilton-Pitre Pdf

Using a combination of case studies and research, the contributors of this timely book highlight some of the significant issues, historical, curricular, and societal, that have led to African American students having a proportionally larger representation in special education classes, higher drop-put rates, and more incidences of in-school, race-on-race violence. The contributors draw from critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and the Afrocentric canon to critique the American educational system. Educating African American Students examines historical issues that are significant for understanding the current state of affairs for African American education; addresses problems and issues in social studies education, mathematics education, and the overrepresentation of African American males in special education; and poignantly illuminates the necessity for renewed activism by telling the stories of African American children and their schooling experiences.

Author : A. Abdi,A. Cleghorn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403977199

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Issues in African Education by A. Abdi,A. Cleghorn Pdf

This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.

Author : Johannes J. Knoetze,Alfred R. Brunsdon
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781776341993

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A critical engagement with theological education in Africa by Johannes J. Knoetze,Alfred R. Brunsdon Pdf

The higher education landscape has arguably become one of the most arduous to traverse. More so in the African context, where a host of variables continiously challenge educators to reflect critically on their philosophies and practices as they engage an ever-changing audience. In this book, a critical engagement with theological education in Africa is offered. As the book originates from South Africa, it is presented as a South African perspective, although contributors are situated accross the African continent and abroad. The common denominator is that all contributers are, in some way or another, invested in theological education in Africa. The main contribution of this collaborative work is to be sought in the insights it offers on four main areas of theological education: A historical and current orientation on theological edcuation in Africa, some paradigm shifts in theological education in Africa, ministerial formation needs versus theological education challenges, and a critical reflection on elective models and methods. The book presents the original and innovative research of scholars for fellow scholars involved in theological higher education as it is grounded in the respective fields of interest of each contributor. It contributes to a better understanding of the complex African theological higher education landscape that is also mindful of post-COVID-19 realities. Methodologically the work draws on a combination of methods, including literature studies, empirical work, and in some cases sectional offerings from doctoral studies, as indicated in the various chapters.

Author : Wayne Au,Anthony L. Brown,Dolores Calderón
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807773932

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Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum by Wayne Au,Anthony L. Brown,Dolores Calderón Pdf

Author : Kofi Lomotey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1153 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412940504

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Encyclopedia of African American Education by Kofi Lomotey Pdf

The Encyclopedia of African American Education covers educational institutions at every level, from preschool through graduate and professional training, with special attention to historically black and predominantly black colleges and universities. Other entries cover individuals, organizations, associations, and publications that have had a significant impact on African American education. The Encyclopedia also presents information on public policy affecting the education of African Americans, including both court decisions and legislation. It includes a discussion of curriculum, concepts, theories, and alternative models of education, and addresses the topics of gender and sexual orientation, religion, and the media. The Encyclopedia also includes a Reader's Guide, provided to help readers find entries on related topics. It classifies entries in sixteen categories: " Alternative Educational Models " Associations and Organizations " Biographies " Collegiate Education " Curriculum " Economics " Gender " Graduate and Professional Education " Historically Black Colleges and Universities " Legal Cases " Pre-Collegiate Education " Psychology and Human Development " Public Policy " Publications " Religious Institutions " Segregation/Desegregation. Some entries appear in more than one category. This two-volume reference work will be an invaluable resource not only for educators and students but for all readers who seek an understanding of African American education both historically and in the 21st century.