A variety of instructional materials for use in teaching about Africa are discussed, ranging from films and slides to maps and replications of African art. (LS)

The teaching of controversial issues has been widely viewed as preparing students for effective citizenship and, as such, is regarded as inevitable in social studies classrooms if students are to be able to think intelligently and to participate effectively in society. However, the effective implementation of issue-centered education in African…

Project Africa's report summarizes: 1) its background and rationale, structure, and staff, 2) curriculum materials design, development, field trial and evaluation, 3) other project dissemination activities. Three different groups of materials were developed by the project. The most comprehensive was a flexible, sixteen-week program of study,…

Outlines the history, goals, and topics covered by social studies in junior secondary schools in Botswana. Questionnaire responses from 150 junior secondary teachers address conceptions about the definition and content of social studies, the qualities of instructional materials, the quality of social studies teachers, and other related problems.…

African history is a relatively new discipline and its sources, methodology, and content may be unfamiliar to those trained in European or U.S. history. Through presentations by African scholars, this document offers new strategies for integrating Africa into world history courses. Each presentation is followed by commentaries from experienced…

Information to help educators develop a program of study about Africa south of the Sahara is presented in this guide for use with secondary school students. Appropriate objectives for a study of this region and its people are stated: the acquisition of sufficient information to make contemporary Africa intelligible, the formulation of concepts…

This report provides an evaluation of a three-year, joint project of in-service teacher training for teachers of Africa in the seventh grade Social Studies curriculum in North Carolina. The four major areas of concern were: 1) Cognitive Knowledge About Africa (including the dispelling of prevalent myths), 2) Teacher Attitudes Toward Change and…

Recommends instructional materials on Africa for use in junior high and secondary social studies classrooms. The list is presented in six categories: audio-visual materials, curriculum guides, newsletters and journals, organizations, pupil materials, and teacher background material. A brief annotation accompanies each title. (Author/DB)

This document presents curriculum projects and papers written by U.S. teachers who traveled to countries in Southern Africa in the summer of 1991 as part of the Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars Abroad Program. The included projects and papers are: "Through a Glass Darkly: The Enigmatic Educational System of Botswana" (Alan C. Howard);…

These lessons were written by African social studies specialists for U.S. middle school students to stimulate interest in and develop a positive attitude toward Africans and their culture. Each lesson provides objectives, materials, teaching procedures, and is meant to be used as a textbook supplement. To promote understanding of young Africans,…

This document contains bibliographies for teaching children about Africa as well as descriptions and rules of African games for American children. This collection of bibliographies supplements an earlier collection, "Selected Bibliographies for Teaching Children about Subsaharan Africa." The bibliographies included here were prepared in…

Argues that early African civilizations should be taught to ameliorate the problem of many African-American students first encountering related peoples in discussions of colonialism and slavery. Observes that the absence of materials for middle grade teachers reinforces this tendency. Promotes the authors' teaching packs on the ancient African…

A collection of reproducible black and white maps, charts, and graphs for classroom use profiles Africa today. Individual country maps were originally produced by the United Nations, U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The material depicts the continent's (1) size, (2) population, (3) resources, (4) commodities, (5)…

THIS DOCUMENT, PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK BOARD OF EDUCATION, PRESENTS A REVISED COURSE OF STUDIES IN HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR GRADE 5. ONE OF A SERIES DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS AT ALL GRADE LEVELS, PRE-KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 12, THIS PRELIMINARY BULLETIN REFLECTS A NEW SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM WHICH, EMPLOYING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH,…

The articulation of a rationale for Project Africa's instructional program, the collection of materials for improving inquiry-oriented instruction at the secondary level about Africa south of the Sahara, and the preparation of teaching and study guides have been completed. This geographic region, rather than the whole continent, was chosen to…