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School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1991
Describes fully developed library media activities that are designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units. Highlights include music (the music of Africa), language arts (American Black poets), science (the work of George Washington Carver), and social studies (Laura Ingalls Wilder and the movement West). (LRW)
Descriptors: African Culture, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
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Obidi, S. S. – Journal of Negro Education, 1993
Investigates the reactions of 295 Nigerian secondary school students aged 14 to over 18 years to some indigenous moral values through a Likert-type opinion survey. Regardless of age, Nigerian adolescents are generally supportive of traditional moral values such as respect for and obedience to parents and elders. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Culture, Age Differences, Black Students
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Aronson, Lisa – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1991
Explores recent studies in anthropology, art history, and archeology on African women's art from a feminist theoretical perspective. Relates women's arts to several sociological and economic factors and suggests new avenues of exploration, especially in the face of urbanization and modernization. (CJS)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Anthropology, Art History
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Raymond, Henry J.; Jones, Fred; Cooke, Vanessa – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 1998
Current research strongly refutes assertions that nonspanking methods do not work well with African-American children. Autocratic childrearing is no longer effective. Hitting children does not instill confidence or courage, but supports poor self-concepts, builds desire for revenge, and fosters violence. Data is presented to support this view.…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Culture, Black Family, Black Stereotypes
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Hinton, Samuel; Mowell, Barry; Brook, Diane L. – Social Education, 1997
Provides an annotated list of the many and varied educational resources on Sub-Saharan Africa. Briefly describes related university programs, African Studies Associations, nonprofit organizations, history and political studies, and biographies. A separate section outlines Internet resources including newsgroups, World Wide Web pages, and…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Uses in Education
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Bartel, Virginia; Hart, Jane – Social Studies, 2000
Discusses an interdisciplinary unit on Africa that was used with four-year-old students, mostly African Americans. Students studied African plains animals, built African round and square houses, experienced African music and stories, made African costumes, and took an imaginary trip to Africa. Includes an annotated bibliography. (CMK)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies
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Brown, Barbara B.; And Others – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1996
Gently rebukes many acclaimed children's books on Africa for perpetuating an exotic and folkloric picture of that continent. Asserts that the daily reality of most Africans is centered around cities, occupations, transportation, and other aspects of modern life. Includes a list of 19 picture books that focus on these aspects. (MJP)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Bibliographies
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Mboya, Mzobanzi M. – Educational Psychology, 1995
Maintains that a significant positive relationship exists between perceived teacher support, interest, and encouragement and adolescents' self-concept in Africa. Utilized the Self-Description Inventory (SDI) to reveal that specific dimensions of adolescents' self-concepts were positively affected by specific teacher behaviors. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, African Culture, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries
Steed, Robin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Approximately one third of the population of Louisiana is African American. According to federal reports, Blacks in Louisiana receive a poorer quality of healthcare compared to the White population. Occupational therapy is a profession of predominately White, middle class females who report in surveys that they are not adequately prepared to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Outcome Measures, Intervention, Association Measures
Beyerbach, Barbara, Ed.; Davis, R. Deborah, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
Artists have always had a role in imagining a more socially just, inclusive world--many have devoted their lives to realizing this possibility. In a culture ever more embedded in performance and the visual, an examination of the role of the arts in multicultural teaching for social justice is timely. This book examines and critiques approaches to…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Fine Arts
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Watkins, William H. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
This integrative review uses two of Asa Grant Hilliard's books, "SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind" and "The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization", to discuss aspects of his scholarly legacy in teaching, history, and psychology. His scholarship is provocative. Hilliard rejected the supremacy of the…
Descriptors: African American Community, Biographies, Profiles, Scholarship
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Agosto, Vonzell – Journal of Negro Education, 2008
Freedom Schools, which operated during 1964 after the collaborative efforts of several Civil Rights organizations, provided an opportunity to understand how students can drive the curriculum to meet individual and collective needs within a community. The presence and use of poetry throughout the Freedom Schools was mysterious, given that it is…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Poetry, Cultural Education, Community Needs
Guy, Talmadge C. – 1996
Africentrism is a culturally grounded philosophical perspective that reflects the intellectual traditions of both African and African American culture. Africentrism is understood as an attempt to reclaim a sense of identity, community, and power in the face of Eurocentric cultural hegemony. Four orientations to Africentrism are observed: the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, African Culture, African History
Putman, Diana Briton; Noor, Mohamood Cabdi – 1993
This booklet is a basic introduction to the people, history, and culture of Somalia. It is designed primarily for service providers and others assisting Somali refugees in their new communities in the United States. Somalis have a long tradition of going abroad to work or study, and today, about 1 million Somalis live scattered around the world.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), African Culture, African History
Powell, Frances J. – 1991
An African centered curriculum has two parts. It is both a process that centers around the cultural heritage of African Americans, and the infusion of content that will stimulate and/or reinforce the growth and development of African and African-American mental and ethical traits. The scholars who are the main proponents of an African centered…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Culture
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