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Ravitch, Diane – Education Next, 2001
Argues that school choice runs counter to the common culture taught in most American public schools until the late 1960s. Discusses reasons why schools no longer teach a common culture. States that if the public schools returned to teaching a common American culture, school choice would be less compelling. (PKP)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Bilingual Education, Culture, Elementary Secondary Education

Harris, Diane J. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 1992
Presents Afrocentric model, an approach to identify problems and develop strategies to enhance the sense of belonging, identity, and control in African-American females. Describes three areas of experience (sense of belonging, identity, and control) and demonstrates application of model by discussing preliminary study of African-American females.…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Cultural Differences, Females

Cheatham, Harold E. – Career Development Quarterly, 1990
Addresses career development as a special task in life-span development. Discusses career development as a counseling intervention based on Eurocentric concepts, a conceptualization that might not address the needs of African American clients. Argues that individual behavior is organized with respect to values, attitudes, and beliefs of a…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Blacks, Career Development

Shipp, Pamela L. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Argues that group work is the most effective tool for work with Black clients because of the Africentric dispositions. The group experience reinforces family and communal relationships while providing a platform for evaluating and defining social realities. (JAC)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques

Jackson, Anita P.; Sears, Susan J. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1992
Explores idea of an Africentric worldview as means for reducing stress among African-American women. Suggests that restructuring worldview can alter the cognitive appraisals of potential stressful situations. Proposes that Africentric worldview framework has potential to counter negative images that often result in stressful appraisals of…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Cognitive Style, Females
Martel, Erich – American Educator, 1994
Discusses the inaccuracies and distortions found within the Portland Baseline Essays, one of the most widespread Afrocentric teacher resource materials in use. Specific distortions examined are that ancient Egypt was a Black nation and that the achievements of ancient Greece had African origins. (GLR)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Ancient History, Educational Resources, Error Correction

Burgess, Norma J. – Journal of Black Studies, 1994
Examines the black female's role in U.S. society, particularly with regard to working outside the home, and argues that one cannot understand what African American women are today without having a historical perspective for what their ancestors and their ancestors' roles, functions, and responsibilities were. An Afrocentric perspective is…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Employed Women, Females

Baldwin, Joseph A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1981
Discusses the interrelatedness of personality and race and identifies African self-extension orientation and African self-consciousness as constituting the core of Black personality. (Author/DA)
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Blacks, Cultural Influences

Todisco, Maria; Salomone, Paul R. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 1991
Describes aspects of Afrocentricity, outlining African-American values, beliefs, and cultural characteristics. Contrasts Afrocentric and Eurocentric worldviews, attempts to increase awareness of cultural bias in counseling and testing, and establishes parameters to enable white counselors to work more effectively with black clients. Reviews career…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Characteristics
Coughlin, Ellen K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Researchers of Black American culture argue that interpretations of their experience are skewed by academe's Western perspective, and are becoming champions of Afrocentricity. (MSE)
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Black Attitudes, Black Culture
Early, Gerald – Civilization, 1995
Describes the perceived failure of integration and the growing number of black Americans who are looking at the world from an African perspective instead of from the European-centered perspective that dominates American culture. The article explains Afrocentrism's appeal in giving Blacks an ideological unity, not just on color but as an expression…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Attitudes, Group Unity, History

Baldwin, Joseph A.; Bell, Yvonne R. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1985
Discusses the lack of reliable instruments for studying African American behavior and psychological functioning as a technical and philosophical flaw in Western psychology. Surveys the development of Africentric theory-based assessment instruments and presents the African Self-Consciousness Scale, a 42-item personalilty questionnaire designed to…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Attitudes, Blacks, Group Unity

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.; And Others – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1994
Provides several viewpoints on whether black studies departments are considered academically respectable or prestigious if they take a separatist or Afrocentrist approach to the study of black history and culture. Additionally, the article examines whether certain areas of black research are dismissed because they are considered scholarly unsound.…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black History, Black Studies, Curriculum Enrichment

Cross, Theodore L., Ed.; And Others – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1993
Presents a number of brief reports on the latest trends and current circumstances surrounding African American progress in higher education. Discussions include an analysis of financial barriers, Harvard's push for diversification, academic citation systems and black scholarship, and the 1993 court ruling on Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Afrocentrism.…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Colleges, Blacks, Citation Analysis

Cross, Theodore L.; And Others – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1994
Presents several brief reports on the latest trends and current circumstances surrounding African American progress in higher education. Discussions include funding levels at black colleges, black student recruitment at Harvard and Yale, displacement of black PhDs in science and engineering, and education and the African American mother. (GLR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Afrocentrism, Black Colleges, Black Students
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