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Crane, Louise – Social Education, 1982
Suggests ways in which the rich resources of African arts--literature, sculpture, music, dance, theater--can be made more accessible to elementary and secondary social studies classrooms. A bibliography of print and nonprint materials is also provided. (RM)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Area Studies, Art Education
Sullivan, Jo – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1983
African studies are especially important because many Americans are of African descent. An interdisciplinary approach should be taken to African studies, which should focus on one or two countries and be integrated into existing courses. Students must be made aware of stereotypes and given accurate information. (CS)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Black History
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Atchia, Michael; Thomas, M. Pugh – Environmentalist, 1981
Examined is the influence of Western technology, land-use, and culture upon the African environment. An environmental education model is proposed which would ensure environmental preservation, a balance between humans and the environment, and the coexistence of traditional modern culture by the year 2030. (DC)
Descriptors: African Culture, Culture Conflict, Developing Nations, Environment
Ojo, Folayan – Bulletin of the Association of African Universities, 1976
The reliability of Nigeria's entry qualification examinations as a predictor of success at the university level is examined. Results indicate a positive correlation in the science-based fields and very low predictability in the social sciences. (JMF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, African Culture
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Iwuji, H. O. M. – International Library Review, 1990
Discusses the oral tradition of Africa as history, as literature, and as an ongoing characteristic of African culture. It is argued that libraries should accommodate this tradition by actively gathering oral history and by providing community services based on oral, rather than written, materials. (Nine references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, African Culture, African History, African Literature
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Hoskins, Linus A. – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Analyzes the struggle between Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism from an Afrocentric geopolitical perspective. Africans, with Afrocentrism as an intellectual class action suit, are determined to rescue their minds from the suzerainty of Eurocentric miseducation. Afrocentrism represents the most potent challenge to the European power structure of the…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Culture
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Hilliard, Asa G., III – Phylon, 1992
Explores the history of KMT (ancient Egypt) and its importance for contemporary African-American experience. Reviews evidence that ancient Egypt was a black African population bound by history and culture to the rest of Africa. The rescue of Kemetic history can restore a sense of heritage to African Americans. (SLD)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Ancient History, Black Culture
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Chanda, Jacqueline – Art Education, 1992
Considers concepts and terminologies that focus on generalizations concerning traditional African art and cultures. Argues that alternative concepts and terminologies should be used in developing curriculum and in teaching non-Western art. Discusses traditional African religious beliefs, primitivism, and the function of African art objects. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, African Culture, Art Appreciation, Art Education
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Wimberly, Edward P. – Urban League Review, 1993
Pastoral counseling can enable African-American men to adopt a different identity by presenting a model of holism that allows men to access both masculine and feminine sides of their identities, becoming whole persons who respond to the world from within rather than reacting to external pressures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, African Culture, Blacks, Holistic Approach
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Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian – New Advocate, 1998
Investigates 50 children's books set in West Africa and discusses 13 titles in-depth to examine how West Africa is portrayed in fiction for children and young adults. Suggests that white authors tend to portray West African culture as "incomplete," while black authors depict the culture as "pure" and untainted. Argues that…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, African Culture, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis
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Hanna, Emily; Eubanks, Paula – Art Education, 2000
Compares the values of the Akan people of West Africa and African-American cultures and works of art that embody these values. Describes each artwork (Akan crown, African-American Head Wrap, Asafo Flags, and the Harriet Powers quilt) and provides questions and activities appropriate for middle school students. (CMK)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Art Education
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Byndloss, D. Crystal – Education and Urban Society, 2001
Examines how sociopolitical context influenced two school districts to pursue reform models that centered on persistent segregation, highlighting research on black mobilization around community control of New York City schools and black support of African American immersion schools in Milwaukee. Results reveal that using all-Black settings as a…
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Students
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Ande, Oluyinka; Oladepo, Oladimeji; Brieger, William R. – Health Education Research, 2004
Community-based distributors (CBDs) have been trained and utilized to promote a variety of health commodities. In addition, a variety of different types of community residents have been trained ranging from traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to patent medicine vendors. A training programme for CBD agents in the Akinyele Local Government Area of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries, Local Government
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Singh, Anand – Childhood Education, 2005
Based on ethnographic research conducted in five schools in Durban, this article addresses three issues that are widely perceived as major problems in the transformation of education in post-apartheid South Africa: 1) the rapid and unplanned integration of state-funded schools that has led to overcrowding of classrooms, 2) the class and domestic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, African Culture, Access to Education
Hamilton, Kendra – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
A hip-hop archive at Harvard University? Classes at Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Yale and MIT? Panel discussions on Jay-Z and Nas sandwiched between Milton and the Harlem Renaissance at the Modern Language Association conference? The sea of change under way in the academy started in 1994 with two historians: Dr. Tricia Rose, now of the University…
Descriptors: Scholarship, African Americans, Music, African American Culture
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