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Clark, Leon E., Ed. – 1971
This book, second in a series of six dealing with African culture and intended for secondary level students, deals with the processes of industrialization and urbanization that are transforming the traditional way of life in Africa. Almost all of the selections in this volume were written by Africans, and they come from a variety of sources…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), African Culture, Area Studies, Black Studies
Kuntz, Patricia S. – 1979
This index presents references to 413 children's textbooks and tradebooks about Africa. All of the entries were published in the United States between 1970 and 1979. The main purpose of the index is to aid elementary and secondary social studies and language arts classroom teachers as they develop curriculum for African area study programs.…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Area Studies
Lipsky, William; And Others – 1980
This publication contains critical analyses of filmstrips dealing with five major world areas: Russia and East Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Near East. The filmstrips are for use in elementary and secondary classrooms. One hundred and fifty filmstrips produced between 1970 and the present and available from commercial publishers and…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Asian Studies
Uchendu, Victor C.; And Others – 1980
This report describes a major project in African curriculum development for public School teachers in the three state area of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Included in the report is a discussion of the project's background, recruitment, staffing, the program, and evaluation results. The project has three major objectives: (1) to improve the…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Art
Schmidt, Nancy J., Comp. – 1975
These annotated bibliographies were originally developed for in-service workshops for elementary and secondary school teachers who are teaching about Africa or interested in developing curricula about Africa. The bibliographies are quite selective. They include only materials which are current, relatively accurate and unbiased, and give an…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Annotated Bibliographies
Chappelle, Yvonne Juanita Reed – 1974
Black studies is an attempt by African-Americans to understand their African cultural heritage and value system. The goals of Black studies are: (1) to enable a reevaluation of information from a perspective which takes into account traditional African humanistic values; (2) to encourage creativity motivated by a positive understanding of one's…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Culture, Black Education, Black Studies
Ongiri, David O. – 1976
The purpose of this paper is to describe the practices and ideologies held in common by the African colonial system of education and the urban American educational system. It is advocated that the following ideas be applied from the American colonial experience to improve American ghetto schools: (1) a continued effort in assisting the American…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Dialects, Black Education, Child Rearing
Abbott, Susan – 1974
The purpose of this study was to distinguish between cultural values and expectations regarding family structure and actual family structure as reflected in interviews concerning family decision making and control of resources in rural Kikuyu where the economy is such that 67 percent of the males must work in Nairobi (Kenya), visiting their homes…
Descriptors: African Culture, Child Care, Cultural Images, Decision Making
Beyer, Barry K. – 1970
This guide cites instructional materials on Africa south of the Sahara which have become available since February 1969. Acknowledging the probability of inaccuracies in the majority of the materials cited, the guide neither evaluates nor promotes items, but simply presents annotations of readings, textbooks, fact sheets, atlases, African…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Annotated Bibliographies, Atlases
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. – 1968
This is the fourth of seven resource units for a twelfth grade course on value conflicts and policy decisions. The topic for this unit is Africa south of the Sahara. The objectives are listed as to generalizations, skills, and values. The double-page format relates objectives to pertinent content, teaching procedures, and instructional materials.…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Blacks, Colonialism
Pradervand, Pierre – 1970
The countries discussed in this paper are the francophone countries of West Africa and the Republic of Congo, with comparative references made to North Africa (mainly Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). Obstacles to the adoption of family planning in the countries of tropical Africa are a very high mortality rate among children; a socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, African Culture, Allied Health Occupations Education, Child Rearing
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development. – 1965
A framework of non-western culture, specifically Asia and Africa, is provided in this 9th grade teaching guide. It is hoped that students will understand the heritage, situations, and problems of those emerging nations. Cross-cultural comparisons help students identify likenesses, differences, and effects of internal and external events on a…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Asian History

Krogness, Mary Mercer – Language Arts, 1987
Discusses the success of a family folklore unit in a racially and ethnically diverse sixth-grade class (containing Black, White, Japanese-American, and Jewish students), provides suggestions for a folklore curriculum, and points out the significance of folklore. (SKC)
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Culture, Cultural Background, Cultural Context
Middle Level Learning: Teaching and Learning Social Studies in the Middle Grades, 1998
This supplement to "Social Education" and "Social Studies & the Young Learner" seeks to support creative and rigorous social studies teaching in middle schools. The articles show how students can revisit the Oregon Trail through the diaries of children, learn about the five themes of geography (location, place,…
Descriptors: African Culture, Built Environment, Child Labor, Childrens Literature
Warner, Rachel, Ed. – 1995
This dual-language (Portuguese and English) collection of autobiographical writing by refugees from Angolan children and young adults living in Britain is illustrated with photographs and children's drawings and includes comprehensive country introductions. In the collection, young people give their accounts of migration and explore how their…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Childrens Writing