Educating African Canadians

Author : Keren S. Brathwaite
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 1550285009

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Educating African Canadians by Keren S. Brathwaite Pdf

This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success. Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to this collection alert readers to many of the challenges that African Canadians face in the educational system. They discuss new initiatives and suggest new directions that might improve the academic success of Black students. Educating African Canadians offers practical suggestions that can enhance the education not only of African Canadian students, but of all students. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773548459

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Education of African Canadian Children by Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi Pdf

Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and outside of school. Recognizing that the education these young people receive will shape their lives as citizens, the contributors to this volume provide an important, timely analysis of the educational experiences of African Canadian children and youth. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars, The Education of African Canadian Children critically responds to and comments on the historical, cultural, institutional, and informational contexts and problems of the learning lives of these children. The authors offer a comprehensive history of African Canadians’ encounters with the education system, the current challenges they are facing, and opportunities for more inclusive and democratic educational practices that will better serve this population. Advocating for cultural redemption and learning success for a population that is not being served well by Canadian public education systems, this book will benefit teachers, students, government program managers, policy makers, and educational researchers. The first multi-authored work of its kind, The Education of African Canadian Children opens new debates and possibilities for change for those concerned with education in their communities and their country.

Author : Karen S."" ""Brathwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459325095

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Educating African Canadians by Karen S."" ""Brathwaite Pdf

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Tamari Kitossa,Malinda S. Smith,Handel K. Wright
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487528720

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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy by Awad Ibrahim,Tamari Kitossa,Malinda S. Smith,Handel K. Wright Pdf

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In daring to shift from margin to centre, the book’s contributors confront two overlapping themes. First, they resist a singular construction of Blackness that masks the nuances and multiplicity of what it means to be and experience the academy as Black people. Second, they challenge the stubborn durability of anti-Black tropes, the dehumanization of Blackness, persistent deficit ideologies, and the tyranny of low expectations that permeate the dominant idea of Blackness in the white colonial imagination. Operating at the intersections of discourse and experience, contributors reflect on how Blackness shapes academic pathways, ignites complicated and often difficult conversations, and reimagines Black pasts, presents, and futures. This unique collection contributes to the articulation of more nuanced understandings of the ways in which Blackness is made, unmade, and remade in the academy and the implications for interrelated dynamics across and within post-secondary education, Black communities in Canada, and global Black diasporas.

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773548466

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Education of African Canadian Children by Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi Pdf

Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and outside of school. Recognizing that the education these young people receive will shape their lives as citizens, the contributors to this volume provide an important, timely analysis of the educational experiences of African Canadian children and youth. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars, The Education of African Canadian Children critically responds to and comments on the historical, cultural, institutional, and informational contexts and problems of the learning lives of these children. The authors offer a comprehensive history of African Canadians’ encounters with the education system, the current challenges they are facing, and opportunities for more inclusive and democratic educational practices that will better serve this population. Advocating for cultural redemption and learning success for a population that is not being served well by Canadian public education systems, this book will benefit teachers, students, government program managers, policy makers, and educational researchers. The first multi-authored work of its kind, The Education of African Canadian Children opens new debates and possibilities for change for those concerned with education in their communities and their country.

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei,Arlo Kempf
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Vincent D'Oyley,Carl James
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africans
ISBN : 1896691471

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Re/visioning by Vincent D'Oyley,Carl James Pdf

Author : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755

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The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu Pdf

This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian". In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first generation, Black Continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent.

Author : Delores V. Mullings
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773634593

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Africentric Social Work by Delores V. Mullings Pdf

This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their understanding of how to initiate and maintain best practices with African Canadians. In social work education and field practice, students will benefit from the depth and breadth of this book’s discussions of social, health and educational concerns related to Black people across Canada. The book’s contributors present a broad spectrum of personal and professional experiences as African Canadian social work practitioners, students and educators. They address issues that African Canadians confront daily, which social work educators and potential practitioners need to understand to provide racially and culturally relevant services. The book presents students with an invaluable opportunity to develop their practical skills through case studies and critical thinking exercises, with recommendations for how to ethically and culturally engage in African-centred service provision.

Author : Erica S. Lawson,Philip S.S. Howard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487523664

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African Canadian Leadership by Erica S. Lawson,Philip S.S. Howard Pdf

Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy, motherhood and grieving, mentoring, and anti-racism, contributors appraise the complex history and contemporary reality of blackness and leadership in Canada. With Canada as a complex site of Black diasporas, contributors offer an account of multiple forms of leadership and suggest that through surveillance and disruption, practices of self-determined Black leadership are incompatible with, and threatening to, White "structures" of power in Canada. As a whole, African Canadian Leadership offers perspectives that are complex, non-aligned, and in critical conversation about class, gender, sexuality, and the politics of African Canadian communities.

Author : William Doyle-Marshall
Publisher : Calypso Hous
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Black Canadians Education
ISBN : OCLC:30070864

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A Mandate for Educating African-Canadians by William Doyle-Marshall Pdf

Author : Joseph Mensah
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Black Canadians
ISBN : 1552663450

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Black Canadians by Joseph Mensah Pdf

The Anti-racism collection has been created by Lethbridge Public Library and the City of Lethbridge Diversity and Inclusion Working Group to provide resources about anti-racism education, history, and perspective. Anti-racism is defined by the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre as the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably.

Author : Funké Aladejebi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228007043

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Schooling the System by Funké Aladejebi Pdf

In post–World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers’ college through their careers in the classroom and administration, black women educators encountered systemic racism and gender barriers at every step. So they worked to change the system. Using oral narratives to tell the story of black access and education in Ontario between the 1940s and the 1980s, Schooling the System provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women’s distinct experiences within the profession. By valuing women’s voices and lived experiences, Funké Aladejebi illustrates that black women, as a diverse group, made vital contributions to the creation and development of anti-racist education in Canada. As cultural mediators within Ontario school systems, these women circumvented subtle and overt forms of racial and social exclusion to create resistive teaching methods that centred black knowledges and traditions. Within their wider communities and activist circles, they fought to change entrenched ideas about what Canadian citizenship should look like. As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.

Author : Carl E. James
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9781487526313

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Colour Matters by Carl E. James Pdf

Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.

Author : Gillian Creese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487534851

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“Where Are You From?” by Gillian Creese Pdf

Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Black. In this context, African-Canadians are both hyper-visible as Black, and invisible as distinct communities. Informed by feminist and critical race theories, and based on interviews with women and men who grew up in Vancouver, "Where Are You From?" recounts the unique experience of growing up in a place where the second generation seldom sees other people who look like them, and yet are inundated with popular representations of Blackness from the United States. This study explores how the second generation in Vancouver redefine their African identities to distinguish themselves from African-Americans, while continuing to experience considerable everyday racism that challenges belonging as Canadians. As a result, some members of the second generation reject, and others strongly assert, a Canadian identity.