Education Of African Canadian Children

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Keren S. Brathwaite
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Bairu Sium
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462095939

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How Black and Working Class Children Are Deprived of Basic Education in Canada by Bairu Sium Pdf

This book is the culmination of twenty-four years of research. It explores the thematic intersections of race, class, immigration, and the potential of building student-centered classrooms. Of course, the building of a truly student-centered is itself a slow and contested process. Over the years, progressive changes towards more inclusive education made by some governments were dismantled by others, and have left disadvantaged children where they were before the study was launched. In the meantime, the system has perfected the process of streaming minority children to dead-end courses that betray the social and economic mobility advertised to them. This book examines the moments and positions of educational betrayal in which racialized and working class students disproportionately find themselves. For many, at that point the only option is to drop out of school and engage in the drug trade or other lifestyles that put them at further risk. This is a longitudinal study of a kind with respect to reform and changes retained in education. It started with eight months observation of a split level grade five and six classroom in September 1986. That was instrumental in identifying the uphill battle that black, working class and new immigrant children and their parents were facing to secure the education they deserved. Through continued reviews, observation and follow up interviews change or lack of it was traced. The results call for urgent overhaul of the way education is provided to all children. The book ends with suggestions to effect change.

Author : Vincent D'Oyley,Carl James
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : 50,5 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 : Karen S."" ""Brathwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459325095

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

Author : Annette Henry
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791438376

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Taking Back Control by Annette Henry Pdf

An alternative pedagogical perspective toward the education of Black children is explored through the narratives of five African Canadian women teachers.

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei,Arlo Kempf
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Delores V. Mullings
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Rosemary Sadlier
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554535873

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The Kids Book of Black Canadian History by Rosemary Sadlier Pdf

Learn the important role Black Canadian's have played, and will continue to play, in the development of Canada.

Author : Robyn Maynard
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552669808

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Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard Pdf

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

Author : Sharon Robart-Johnson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1770705287

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Africa's Children by Sharon Robart-Johnson Pdf

"Africa’s Children is a testament to one’s heritage, a belief in one’s ancestors, and a record of truth ... no told!" – Dr. Henry V. Bishop, chief curator, Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, Africa’s Children is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783, as well as those who had come with their masters as early as 1767. Their migration to a new home did little to improve their overall living conditions, a situation that would persist for many years throughout Yarmouth County. By drawing on a comprehensive range of sources that include census and cemetery records, church and school histories, libraries, museums, oral histories, newspapers, wills, The Black Loyalist Directory, and many others, this is a history that has been overlooked for far too long.

Author : C. Glenn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230119505

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African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling by C. Glenn Pdf

Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present , Charles L. Glenn reveals the evolution of assumptions about race and culture as applied to schooling, as well as the reactions of black parents and leadership in the United States and Canada.

Author : Erica S. Lawson,Philip S.S. Howard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Mona Gleason,Tamara Myers,Leslie Paris,Veronica Strong-Boag
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859011

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Lost Kids by Mona Gleason,Tamara Myers,Leslie Paris,Veronica Strong-Boag Pdf

Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, they have motivated many adult-driven schemes to effect a positive future. But have all children benefited from these programs and initiatives? Lost Kids examines adults' misgivings about, and the inadequate care of, vulnerable children. From explorations of interracial adoption and the treatment of children with disabilities to discussions of the cultural construction of the hopeless child, this multifaceted collection rejects the essentialism of the "priceless child" or "lost youth" � simplistic categories that continue to shape the treatment of those who deviate from the so-called norm.