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Marable, Manning – Black Scholar, 1992
Advocates a framework for African-American development and awareness in which African-American studies will play a decisive role in debate surrounding multiculturalism. Multiculturalism and African-American studies must be articulated within a general theory of educational democracy. African-American studies must also become a projection of what…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
Sheared, Vanessa – 1996
According to Knowles (1980), adults come to the learning environment when they are ready. His concept of andragogy is based on these assumptions: changes in self-concept, the role of experience, readiness to learn, and orientation to learning. Increasing concern has been placed upon the need to address the multiple cultural needs of learners and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Afrocentrism, Andragogy

Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor – Journal of Black Studies, 1997
The study of controversies about the legitimacy and historical groundedness of assertions about African civilization is used to support an Afrocological teaching approach to African civilization, exploring the content of the American college curriculum. There is a historically factual basis for a holistic pedagogical approach to African…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Studies

King, William M. – Phylon, 1992
Explores several facets of science and technology from an Afrocentric perspective with a world view, normative assumptions, and frames of reference growing from experiences and folk wisdom of African Americans. African-American studies can illuminate ways in which science and technology have been subordinated to ideology. (SLD)
Descriptors: African History, Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Blacks

Crouch, Stanley – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1996
Argues that, as a movement, Afrocentrism is a clever but essentially simple-minded hustle that, in its desire to have the power to define, often justifies low-quality scholarship. Its central failure is the failure to recognize what African Americans have done to realize the truest meanings of democratic possibility. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Studies

Williams, Wayne R. – Phylon, 1992
Examines questions of constructing a unified theory in Black Studies, and proposes a model that has explained creole language phenomena as a possible basis for such a unified theory. Explores the role of African languages in the formation of creole patterns. (SLD)
Descriptors: African History, African Languages, Afrocentrism, Black Studies
Myers, Samuel L., Jr. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
This Presidential Address was delivered by Samuel L. Myers Jr. at the Business Luncheon of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), 23rd Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 2, 2001. He contends that modern policy analysis training largely ignores race as a substantive area of inquiry. Many significant…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Black Studies, American Studies, Policy Analysis
Tesfagiorgis, Frieda High – Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, 1987
Afrofemcentrism--Afro-female-centered consciousness in the visual arts--has found its ideological and aesthetic fruition in the sculpture of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold. They depict Black women's realities and portray Black women as primary, active, and real-typed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Art, Art Expression, Art History
Shujaa, Mwalimu J., Ed. – 1994
This book attempts to demonstrate some of the ways African-Americans can use their cultural base to educate children. The book fits into the Afrocentric school of thought with its aim to develop subject-centered analysis and solutions for children. The book makes the commitment that education is a cultural imperative for all African-American…
Descriptors: African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Achievement, Black Education

Miller, John J., Ed. – 1996
The essays in this collection place the current Afrocentric movement in its historical context and offer alternative suggestions about how to teach African American students about their history. The first section deals with the roots of Afrocentrism, analyzes the content of Afrocentric books and curricula, and discusses the impact of Afrocentrism…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black History, Black Students

Kershaw, Terry – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
A model for a proposed African-American studies discipline is based on the assumptions that African-American experiences are worth studying, historical experiences of peoples of African descent can inform others about human issues, and distinctive historic and cultural African-American experiences exist. Five steps in a African-American studies…
Descriptors: African History, Afrocentrism, Black Community, Black Culture

Woodyard, Jeffrey Lynn – Journal of Black Studies, 1991
Analyzes the history of the development of African-American studies as a social science and humanities discipline, and contends that the field is so new it has no history of its own. The inception of the Temple University (Pennsylvania) School of Afrocentric Scholarship marks the discipline's real birth. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Afrocentrism, Black History, Black Studies

Banks, James A. – Journal of Negro Education, 1992
Conceptualizes multicultural education as an interdisciplinary field focusing on racial, ethnic, and cultural groups, and on both genders. The development of African-American scholarship is traced as a vital root of the multicultural education movement. The intergroup education movement of the 1940s and 1950s is also discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Achievement, Black Students, Black Studies

Mosely-Howard, G. Susan; Harris, Yvette R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1993
Presents issues and methods used in teaching an African American psychology course. Discusses theories about Afrocentrism, identity, education, family, and mental health as they relate to African Americans. Contends that the course adds diverse perspectives to the psychology curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Education, Black Family
Scott, Hugh J. – 1992
This essay offers reflections on Black consciousness and Afrocentrism in the United States, especially as movements in education. The paper opens by recalling the history of oppression and rejection that influences the African American heritage. Next, the essay traces some highlights in the development of ideas of race consciousness from the early…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black Education