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Williams, Otis; Davis, Julius; Cox, Mark – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This article shares how three African-centered Black men partnered with a school system to develop and implement an Africentric rites of passage program for seventh- and eighth-grade Black male students. The proposed school-based intervention aimed to socialize, educate, and cultivate Black boys in preparation for manhood. Theoretically, the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Afrocentrism, Cultural Influences
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Ladan Rahnema – Educational Planning, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore the Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community (JRDC) School in rural Ethiopia. The author explored the school's integration of Rastafarian culture and spirituality on pedagogical practices. Analysis of the perceptions of the school by members of the surrounding community and other stakeholders at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Culture, Community Schools, Rural Areas
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Faude, Sarah – Educational Policy, 2021
Through an ethnographic case study within one struggling Afrocentric public charter school in the Mid-Atlantic from 2009 to 2011, I show how broader neoliberal reforms and an incomplete attempt at Afrocentric education combined to redefine Blackness as poverty, danger, and failure through the co-optation of school-based practices. Using a Critical…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Public Schools, Charter Schools, African American Students