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Dillard, Cynthia B. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2016
In this case study of a young Black woman educator from the southern United States, I examine how her engagements with Africa and African knowledges, culture and womanhood in Ghana, West Africa substantively transformed her selfhood and her ability to respond in cultural relevant and accurate ways in her teaching of Black children. From her story…
Descriptors: Case Studies, African American Teachers, Females, Feminism
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Edwards, Kirsten T. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2020
While university-based study abroad programs have become a core component of multicultural education, I argue that in many ways the dominant model of study abroad is rooted in a white masculinist episteme predicated on anthropological consumption of the "Other" without, and largely opposed to, meaningful examinations of the self. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Study Abroad, Multicultural Education, Self Concept
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Henry, Annette – Canadian Journal of Education, 1993
Some epistemological issues underpinning alternative conceptualizations of education of children of African descent in Canada are discussed, with reference to the agency and the subjectivity of black female educators. The standard epistemologies must be reshaped to the pedagogical realities of black teachers and students in Canada. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black History, Black Students, Black Teachers
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Henry, Annette – Journal of Negro Education, 1992
Explores the relationships among family, community, and classroom teaching as they inform the perspectives of African-Canadian women teachers on teaching African-Canadian children. Interviews and observations of five teachers demonstrate how they fight for social justice and the academic achievement of their students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Activism, Affirmative Action, Afrocentrism, Black Teachers
Riggins, Stephen Harold, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on "the other" in discourse includes: "The Rhetoric of Othering" (Stephen Harold Riggins); "Political Discourse and Racism: Describing Others in Western Parliaments" (Teun A. van Dijk); "'Das Ausland' and Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Discursive Construction of the Other" (Ruth Wodak);…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advertising, Afrocentrism, Anti Semitism
Garth, Phyllis Ham, Ed. – 2001
This symposium publication consists of 26 presentations. Papers are "'How to Eat an Oreo': Using African American Research through Personal Narrative To Analyze Ethnic Dysmorphic Phenomenon" (Ashford); "Authentic Members: Uncovering Adult Children" (Barnes); "What Good Is Government? Assessment of Government Official…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, African Studies
Sork, Thomas J., Ed.; Chapman, Valerie-Lee, Ed.; St. Clair, Ralf, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings contain 102 papers, 32 roundtables, and 5 symposia. Among the papers are "Weathered by Their Experiences" (Aiken); "Politics of Knowledge and Theory Construction in Adult Education (AE)" (Alfred); "Self-Directed Learning as a Political Act" (Andruske); "All Things Bold and Beautiful" (Armstrong); "Violence Against Women" (Baird);…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Afrocentrism