Centering African Proverbs Indigenous Folktales And Cultural Stories In Curriculum

Author : George J. Sefa Dei,Mairi McDermott
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781773380612

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Centering African Proverbs, Indigenous Folktales, and Cultural Stories in Curriculum by George J. Sefa Dei,Mairi McDermott Pdf

A vital resource for educators, this collection offers refl ections on and samples of units and lessons with an anti-racism orientation that promote inclusive educational practices for today’s increasingly diverse K–12 classrooms. Engaging with multicentric cultural knowledges and stories, the contributors—consisting of classroom teachers, community workers, and adult educators—present units and lesson plans that challenge the Eurocentricity of curriculum design while also having practical applicability within various North American curricular models. These curriculum designs make space for students’ lived experiences inside the classroom and amplify critical social values, such as community building, social justice, equity, fairness, resistance, and collective responsibility, thereby addressing the issue of youth disengagement and promoting productive inclusion. Rich with sample units and lessons that are grounded in African oral traditions, this ground-breaking resource features critical guiding questions, suggestions for ongoing and culminating classroom activities, templates and resources, and notes to the teacher. Centering African Proverbs, Indigenous Folktales, and Cultural Stories in Curriculum is an essential tool for practising teachers, professional learning providers, and students in education and teaching programs across Canada and the United States.

Author : Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781773383071

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Social Justice Education in Canada by Ali A. Abdi Pdf

This engaging edited collection highlights key discussions around educational inequity and related structures and sub-structures. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, Social Justice Education in Canada balances important knowledge, learning practices, and possibilities emanating from and embedded in anti-racist and anti-oppressive education with instructive, grounding examples. The text confronts the idea of social justice as an abstract concept, discussing suggestions for rethinking educational systems and making changes that will benefit the learning lives of all students. With the aim to critically expand the emerging and increasingly active debates in this important area of educational and social development, this volume strives to collectively deepen our understanding and appreciation for critical social justice education. Organized into 14 chapters and featuring an epilogue written by Dr. Edward Shizha, the book critically deals with contemporary topical issues in education, including readings on cultural, racial, religious, Indigenous, language, socio-economic, citizenship, disability/ableism, and immigrant/refugee status realities and their interwoven learning and teaching intersections. This text is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of education across Canada. FEATURES: - Designed to spark discussions and debates, each chapter closes with discussion questions to encourage critical reflection - Contributors move beyond the theoretical with actionable, practical applications for critical social justice that can be utilized by educators and teacher educators - Intersecting topical diversity is at the forefront of this volume, which features contributors from different backgrounds and communities critically engaging with issues pertinent to social justice and equity in education

Author : Ashwani Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000575392

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Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research by Ashwani Kumar Pdf

This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar’s work on meditative inquiry – a holistic approach to teaching, learning, researching, creating, and living – in diverse educational contexts. Aspiring to awaken awareness, intelligence, compassion, collaboration, and aesthetic sensibility among students and their teachers through self-reflection, critique, dialogue, and creative exploration, this volume: Showcases unique ways in which scholars from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and geographic contexts have engaged with meditative inquiry in their own fields. Provides a space where African, Asian, Buddhist, Indigenous, and Western scholars engage with the idea of meditative inquiry from their own cultural, philosophical, and spiritual traditions, perspectives, and practices. Explores a variety of themes in relation to meditative inquiry including arts-based research, poetic inquiry, Africentricity, Indigenous thinking, martial arts, positive psychology, trauma, dispute resolution, and critical discourse analysis. Offers insights into how the principles of meditative inquiry can be incorporated in classrooms and, thereby, contributes to the growing interest in mindfulness, meditation, and other holistic approaches in schools and academia. The diverse and rich contributions contained in this volume offer valuable perspectives and practices for scholars, students, and educators interested in exploring and adopting the principles of meditative inquiry in their specific fields and contexts.

Author : Allan Michel Jales Coutinho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000580440

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Curriculum Work and Social Justice Leadership in a Post-Reconceptualist Era by Allan Michel Jales Coutinho Pdf

This book urgently confronts systems of privilege and oppression within education, and combines concepts including bifocality, currere, and conscientização to highlight the role of dialogical and autobiographical reflection in dismantling neoliberal and colonial logics at the level of theory, policy, and practice. The author purposefully connects methods and concepts from curriculum, social studies and the arts, and offers insights into identity formation, social position, and social transformation. As such, Jales Coutinho presents an opportunity for curricularists to evaluate the connections between their lives and their work within and across mutually-constitutive discursive and material contexts, and critically analyze their agency, their relational encounters, and their position as changemakers within unjust social realities. Focusing on the intersection of curriculum theory with educational policy and leadership, the text calls for a mutual "becoming conscious" to illustrate how this can affect a paradigmatic shift toward social justice education, lived curriculum, and emancipatory pedagogy. With the potential to expand and set the tone for a long-standing curriculum conversation for curriculum theorists, educational leaders and policymakers concerning the contours and dimensions of our work in schools, research institutions, and policy circles, it crucially asks: what does it mean to engage in the complicated conversation of curriculum work in a post-reconceptualist era?

Author : Anthony Afful-Broni,Jophus Anamuah-Mensah,Kolawole Raheem,George J. Sefa Dei
Publisher : Myers Education Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004466357

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Outside and In-Between: Theorizing Asian-Canadian Exclusion and the Challenges of Identity Formation by Anonim Pdf

This collection of critical theorizing reflects the lived experiences of racialized Asian-Canadian contributors. Grounded in theory and history, these essays illuminate pathways to better understand Asian-ness in contemporary Canada. These academics provide fresh perspectives on Asian Canadian exclusion, examine new spaces for critical resistance, and navigate the challenges of identity formation across racial, cultural, and national boundaries.

Author : Obiakor, Festus E.,Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780997868975

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Life Lessons of African Proverbs by Obiakor, Festus E.,Okoro, Dike Pdf

African folklore, narratives, idiomatic expressions, and cultures are weaved into short sentences that are rich with wisdom. The primary goal of this book is to disseminate knowledge and share the rich culture of Africa, one does not have to be African to appreciate the creative language at play in this book. Readers are encouraged to use the wisdom embedded in these proverbs to transform their lives and the lives of their loved ones and friends.

Author : African Bibliographic Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Folk literature, African
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120088310

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African Folktales and Mythology by African Bibliographic Center Pdf

Author : Mairi McDermott
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Critical pedagogy
ISBN : 1433178907

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Mapping the Terrains of Student Voice Pedagogies by Mairi McDermott Pdf

This book contributes important strategic processes towards realizing the necessary goals of critical reflexive practices in teaching and learning, addressing the question of 'how' one might do critical reflection through autoethnography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004380059

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Knowledge and Decolonial Politics by Anonim Pdf

Knowledge and Decolonial Politics: A Critical Reader offers the perspectives of educators and learners within current developmental settings, highlighting the dominance of Western epistemologies in ‘academic knowledge making’, and the systemic barriers faced whilst trying to implement decolonial practices.

Author : Gail Stacey-Moore,Ingrid Thompson-Cooper
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indians
ISBN : 9781551303512

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Walking in the Good Way by Gail Stacey-Moore,Ingrid Thompson-Cooper Pdf

""Do you know how scary it is to want something so bad you're willing to change your whole life for it?"" Emily Cooper is ready to risk everything to be with the man who has consumed her thoughts and dreams since the fateful day they met. Unraveling fast, she can only cling to the hope that Gavin Blake still wants her. Nursing his wounded heart, Gavin has cut himself off from society and retreated into a self-destructive, mind-numbing world. Emily isn't used to being the strong one, but she'll have to find the daring and confidence within to fight for their love and bring Gavin back from the edge--even if it means losing herself to their all-consuming, pulse-pounding passion. A "New York Times" bestseller, "Pulse" is the unforgettable conclusion to the story of Emily and Gavin that began with "Collide."

Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1919876588

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Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems by Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers Pdf

This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei,Arlo Kempf
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551304175

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New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada by George Jerry Sefa Dei,Arlo Kempf Pdf

New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada is the first study of African-centred schooling in the Canadian context. Starting with an in-depth look at the creation of an Africentric public school within the Toronto District School Board, it tells the story of the movement behind that school's creation and lays bare a rich history of activism, organization, and resistance on the part of numerous African Canadian communities and their allies. The book presents a critical overview of the issues facing racialized students and offers a unique vision of African-centred education as a strategy for student engagement and social transformation. The authors, well known public commentators on African-centred education in Canada, offer a comprehensive analysis of the media controversy surrounding African-centred schools, as well as candid reflections on the personal challenges of fighting a largely unpopular battle.

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551301532

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Removing the Margins by George Jerry Sefa Dei Pdf

Removing the Margins works to identify and challenge many of the cultural and systematic paradigms that perpetuate racism and other forms of oppression in mainstream schooling. The authors pursue the ideal that education should not simply affirm the status quo but should produce knowledge for social action. This philosophical and theoretical resource also moves beyond the study of educational failure to explore the new and creative ways schooling barriers have been confronted. The focus is placed on the factors of representation, family and community, staff equity, language integration and spirituality as fundamental to school reform. Removing the Margins is the product of five years of research and writing in the search for best practices in inclusive education. The authors address the philosophical and theoretical bases for inclusivity in this book, while laying out the practical approach in the accompanying volume Inclusive Schooling: A Teacher's Guide to Removing the Margins.

Author : A. Bame Nsamenang,Thérèse Mungah Tchombé
Publisher : HDRC
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789956444649

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Handbook of African Educational Theories and Practices by A. Bame Nsamenang,Thérèse Mungah Tchombé Pdf