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Piera Biccard; Safura Meeran – Africa Education Review, 2024
Africanisation of the curriculum has been proposed as an urgent and transformative imperative in South African education. Africanisation of the curriculum involves incorporating African perspectives, histories, cultures, and knowledge systems into the educational curriculum. It aims to recognise and value the contributions of African societies and…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Foreign Countries, Education Majors, Bachelors Degrees
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Abotsi, Emma; Hoechner, Hannah – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2022
Studies on migration and education have examined homeland returns as part of family strategies around acquiring desired cultural capital. However, the impact of return migration and transnational mobility on homeland educational landscapes remains under-researched. Using ethnographic data from Ghana, Senegal, the UK and the US, this paper shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Educational Change, Immigrants
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Karen Hudson; Barb Hamilton-Hinch; Mary Jane Harkins; Zhanna Barchuk; Diana Seselja – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
In Canada, the Black population is the third-largest racially visible group, yet students of African descent continue to face inequities in Canadian school systems. Students of African descent can benefit from learning from an Africentric perspective that cultivates their well-being and achievement while centring their lived experience as a person…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, African Culture, High Schools
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David Rousell – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
This article develops the concept of "low-end phonographic pedagogies" through a life-long engagement with vinyl records and the Afro-diasporic music practices of reggae, dub, and dancehall. Approaching my record collection as a counter-archive of vibrational feeling and learning, I explore everyday practices of playing and listening to…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Afrocentrism, African Culture, Music Activities
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Knowles, Corinne – Education as Change, 2021
This article introduces a research project that works with former Extended Studies Programme students to make knowledge that emerges through online, multimodal collaborations. Knowledge-making is not politically neutral, and the project and article are responding in part to the calls of the 2015/2016 South African student protesters to decolonise…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, College Students, Activism
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Eseonu, Temidayo; Duggan, James – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of claims of cultural appropriation in negotiating who has the right to utilise specific racial, cultural or communities' ways of knowing in research co-production. Cultural appropriation is a claim made against those making illegitimate use of traditions, knowledge and practises that…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Cultural Influences, Futures (of Society), Afrocentrism
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Ndlovu, Mkhumbulo; Schlebusch, Gawie; Makola, Solomon – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2023
Introduction: Learner indiscipline has emerged as a global cause for concern for educators and parents in the 21st century. This study sought to develop a framework for the successful implementation of positive discipline. The study sought to provide answers revolving around the contributing factors towards learner indiscipline, the effects of…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Public Schools
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Patient Rambe; Mucha Mkono; Lawrence Meda – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study employs an Afro-centric framework of Digital "Unhu" (i.e. digital humanism) and netnographic accounts of supervisor-supervisee interactions to investigate Mobile Instant Messaging mediated interaction as a platform for honing students' career management competencies. While many existing studies foreground Western…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
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Versfeld, Jessica; Graham, Marien Alet; Ebersöhn, Liesel – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
This study applies an Afrocentric theory (Relationship-Resourced Resilience [RRR]) to analyze teacher resilience in a less-researched context in the Global South. The Isithebe-intervention study in South African schools investigated how time together to strengthen relationships promotes teacher resilience despite structural disparities. Teachers…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Theories, Teachers, Resilience (Psychology)
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Oparinde, Kunle; Govender, Vaneshree – Education as Change, 2019
This paper discusses the role of postgraduate research in the construction of a renaissance Africa where African ways are represented in African research. The study contends that, through postgraduate research, African institutions can effectively impart significant intellectual development which will allow the continent to actively answer African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Culture, Graduate Students, Student Research
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Ladan Rahnema – Educational Planning, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore the Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community (JRDC) School in rural Ethiopia. The author explored the school's integration of Rastafarian culture and spirituality on pedagogical practices. Analysis of the perceptions of the school by members of the surrounding community and other stakeholders at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Culture, Community Schools, Rural Areas
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Ndofirepi, Amasa Philip; Gwaravanda, Ephraim Taurai – Educational Review, 2019
From a theoretical standpoint, the paper challenges the existing unfair representation of knowledge systems in the African university. We argue that the continued domination of Eurocentric epistemology in African universities at the expense of African indigenous knowledge systems is unjust. We provide evidence of existing models of knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Indigenous Knowledge, Epistemology
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Ajaps, Sandra; Forh Mbah, Marcellus – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This paper considered the changes in education that are needed in response to the rapidly deteriorating state of the Earth's environment. We argued that such changes should be focussed on developing an effective education that equips inhabitants of the Earth to understand their environment towards contributing to its conservation, especially with…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)
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Abukari, Ziblim – SAGE Open, 2018
Resilience research began in North America and Western Europe but there is a growing call for exploration of what resilience might mean in specific cultural contexts. Placed within the context of Africentrism and resilience perspectives, this study explores academic experiences of Ghanaian youth in three universities. Semistructured and focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Risk, Academic Achievement
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Speckman, McGlory – New Directions for Higher Education, 2016
Predicated on the principles of success and contextuality, this chapter shares an African perspective on a first-year adjustment programme, known as First-Year Village, including its potential and challenges in establishing it.
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Models, College Freshmen, Program Effectiveness
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