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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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Di Virgilio, Alessia – College Quarterly, 2013
This article explores the issues surrounding the establishment of an Africentric public school in Ontario. It provides a historical overview of the foundation of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. as well as the benefits they provide to Black students, communities and the labor force. It extrapolates the tropes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Afrocentrism, Elementary Schools
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Jackson, Tambra O.; Boutte, Gloria S. – Language Arts, 2009
In U.S. schools, African American students are typically fed steady diets of stereotypical and culturally invasive literature and often do not see themselves positively and consistently represented in books. The crisis is fueled, in part, by teachers who (for various reasons) do not include and draw upon counter-narratives in their classrooms.…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Culture, Culturally Relevant Education, Reading Assignments
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le Grange, L. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In this article I survey educational research conducted in South Africa based on articles published in the "South African Journal of Education" ("SAJHE") over the past five years. The themes that feature prominently in "SAJHE" over the past five years are: "Africanisation and indigenous knowledge,"…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Research
Wood, Jonathan Luke – Online Submission, 2007
Research illustrates that African American students are not successful in a Eurocentric model of education. Thus, an Afrocentric model has been created; however, there remains a lack of usage of this pedagogy in schools and educational institutions. This study analyzes the levels of Intercultural Sensitivity of individuals in a graduate student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multicultural Education, Graduate Students, Afrocentrism