The article discusses the lack of recognition given to jazz in music education in England. (Author/RM)

Author suggests a kind educational network where countries could exchange ideas, teachers, and materials. (GB)

Whether environmental education will provide a major thrust in the search for uniquely African education will depend primarily on how Africans define environmental education. The practical implications of environmental education for schools and communities will also affect its usefulness. (RE)

Discusses an Afrocentric curriculum in public education, describing Molefi Asante's Africology (an epistemological relativism that integrates several academic disciplines into an overarching study). Examines its epistemology and its principles for selecting languages of instruction, academic subjects, course materials, and teaching methodologies.…

While African literature appears to be firmly established in American colleges and universities, its expansion, and in some cases its continuance, is threatened by two factors: racialism and departmental conservatism. As demands for courses in black literature can be met by an increased supply of scholars in Afro-American literature, fewer schools…

200 Africans responded to a questionnaire eliciting recommendations for teaching Americans about Africa. Among them were: avoidance of stereotypes; understanding of African culture; inclusion of North Africa; and, greater emphasis on problems in southern Africa. (DB)

This report discusses the 1974 African Outreach Workshop planned and coordinated by the African Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its major aim was to assist teachers in developing curriculum units on African using materials available in their local community. A second aim was for the African Studies Program to…

Educational leaders in Kenya are attempting to remodel their school system in order to inculcate in their youth a sense of pride in their national heritage. (CK)

Data from questionnaires distributed to the principals of all public schools in Philadelphia indicated the extent to which courses in African and Afro-American history were made available to students in the 1967-68 academic year. Forty-eight percent of public school students (over 135,000 of the total 280,000 enrollment) were exposed to Black…

The major objective of the Project in African Music at Howard University was to develop materials for a course in African music designed for General Education curricula in institutions of higher education. The project was expanded to include the development of materials on African-derived music and to make the materials adaptable for use in…

Suggests that the curriculum must be dramatically revised so that black students will learn how to critically analyze the myths perpetuated by social scientists so that they can learn to gain and exercise power. (Author/AM)

The role of education in promoting national integration or in assessing ethnocentric feelings among educated people is discussed. Previous studies are cited to illustrate the problems among ethnic groups and the educational history of Nigeria. Proposals for curricula reform to enhance cultural unity are discussed. (LBH)

An important issue confronting newly emerging nations in Africa is the development of a new curriculum to reflect the changing norms and views of the past. Looking at nations that share a common British educational tradition, a study done in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe asked which topics and categories of cultural knowledge were essential…