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Thomas Akiva; Marijke Hecht; Esohe Osai – Urban Education, 2024
Given historical patterns of unequal access to arts education, we used an ecosystem perspective to investigate Black Centered Arts and Eurocentric Arts in a mid-sized U.S. city, with a focus on youth programs, museums, and other youth arts organizations. We found that practitioner-leaders valued arts quality, equitable access, community…
Descriptors: Art Education, Afrocentrism, Community Education, Urban Areas
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Piera Biccard; Safura Meeran – Africa Education Review, 2024
Africanisation of the curriculum has been proposed as an urgent and transformative imperative in South African education. Africanisation of the curriculum involves incorporating African perspectives, histories, cultures, and knowledge systems into the educational curriculum. It aims to recognise and value the contributions of African societies and…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Foreign Countries, Education Majors, Bachelors Degrees
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Vance D. Keyes; Latocia Keyes – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Historically, Black colleges, universities, and social workers have shared a history of serving marginalized people. This research is conducted at a point in time when the profession and academic field of social work have expressed an interest in eliminating racism, but more so in upholding the values of social work education in support of working…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Social Work, Academic Degrees, Racism
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Husain Lateef; Adrian Gale; Francine Jellesma; Ellie Borgstrom – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2024
Career aspirations are a crucial aspect of future adult development for individuals of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. However, Black emerging adult men may face specific challenges and obstacles that can hinder the formation of career aspirations. Social and economic disadvantages, racism, and development in low-resourced constrained…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Males, Blacks, Values
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Karen Hudson; Barb Hamilton-Hinch; Mary Jane Harkins; Zhanna Barchuk; Diana Seselja – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
In Canada, the Black population is the third-largest racially visible group, yet students of African descent continue to face inequities in Canadian school systems. Students of African descent can benefit from learning from an Africentric perspective that cultivates their well-being and achievement while centring their lived experience as a person…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, African Culture, High Schools
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Thomas Noel; Joseph Gardner; Ariel Sylvester – On the Horizon, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore how Black homeschooling organizations based in the United States with a public web presence in 2023-2024 characterize their missions and what these mission statements can tell us both about the growing homeschooling movement among Black parents, as well as its potential implications for education as a means of…
Descriptors: African American Education, Afrocentrism, Home Schooling, African American Culture
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Patient Rambe; Mucha Mkono; Lawrence Meda – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study employs an Afro-centric framework of Digital "Unhu" (i.e. digital humanism) and netnographic accounts of supervisor-supervisee interactions to investigate Mobile Instant Messaging mediated interaction as a platform for honing students' career management competencies. While many existing studies foreground Western…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
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Teaira McMurtry – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
America's strength lies in its inherent diversity--an enduring truth that makes the Eurocentric nature of our educational curricula troubling. Despite this foundational reality, curricular materials remain predominantly Eurocentric, often excluding authentic representation and inclusion of Black/African American experiences in children's and young…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism