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Halford, Joan Montgomery – Educational Leadership, 1999
The multiculturalism sought by Ronald Takaki is not ethnic separatism, but a serious scholarship that includes all United States peoples and challenges traditional master narratives of U.S. history. Class is a "hidden reality" of U.S. history. Multiculturalism affirms what this country stands for: opportunity, equality, and realization…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Affirmative Action, Afrocentrism, American Dream
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Ravitch, Diane – Academic Questions, 2005
America's leading historian of education recounts a lifetime in the cause of responsible school reform. Diane Ravitch's blow-by-blow description of run-ins with Afrocentrist firebrand Leonard Jeffries, misguided feminists at the AAUW, the language sensitivity police, and others offers a fascinating perspective on how the education establishment…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Studies, History Instruction, United States History
Wheelan, Belle S. – 1991
National data show that, while more money is being spent on education and legislation has been written to guarantee equal access to the educational process, the nation is still losing black males to crime and joblessness. Teachers must have high expectations for young black males, and they must avoid the labeling and stereotyping that make these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Students
Menken, Kate – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to determine the norms and rules of behavior in a multi-ethnic seventh-grade classroom in an inner-city school. Data were gathered through classroom observations and interviews with the teacher. The teacher in this class stressed ethnic pride, and because the majority of the students (as well as the…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Asian Americans, Black Dialects, Blacks
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Edwards, Ralph – Social Policy, 1992
It is hypocritical to oppose black immersion schools (BISs) as resegregationist. BISs are a solution to urban school problems proposed in areas where integration has failed. BISs are a reaction to that failure, not a cause of it. To succeed, BISs must address issues of social and economic justice. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Community, Black Education, Black Students
Roth, Byron M. – 1994
Progress in civil rights for black Americans does not appear to have been matched, at least in recent years, by equal progress in social harmony. It is argued that a considerable part of present racial difficulties are the result of commonly expressed understandings that are deeply flawed and that these flaws can be corrected only if social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Afrocentrism, Blacks, Civil Rights
Tolliver, Derise; Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – 2002
Various disciplinary perspectives can help in understanding relationships among cultural identity, spirituality, and sociopolitical development and their role in teaching for transformation. Educators must consider how the spirituality omnipresent in the learning environment informs emancipatory education. Cultural identity development is coming…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Afrocentrism, Black Power
Miller, Sheila D., Ed. – 2002
This book addresses physical, mental, and learning disabilities experienced across age, gender, and ethnic groups by the black race in the United States. After an introduction by Sheila D. Miller, the papers are: "A Study to Assess Patient Satisfaction of Transitioning from Medicaid to Managed Care by Sickle Cell Patients in Hampton Roads,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Afrocentrism
Rowland, Michael L. – 2000
Self-help education and self-help literature is important in the lives of African American adults, but the basic models of learning, development, and program planning in adult education have often been developed with little concern for the unique needs of African Americans. In addition, current theories of adult learning often lack understanding…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Afrocentrism
Johnson, Robert C. – 1992
This review examines African American students' access to science and mathematics education, their status and achievement in these fields, factors influencing achievement, and strategies to address the current situation. African Americans are highly underrepresented in the scientific and technical fields. This situation should be corrected because…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Afrocentrism, Black Education
Garth, Phyllis Ham, Ed. – 2002
This document contains 14 papers from an annual symposium on research in adult education for African Americans and Latin Americans. Representative papers include the following: "Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Keeping the Faith and Representing the Race--From the Pulpit to Politics" (Roudell Kirkwood); "Religious Education and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, African Culture, Afrocentrism
Ford-Little, Monica – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this study is to examine an Africentric rite of passage program's impact on African-American male high school students. It is intended to determine whether a rite of passage program will affect attendance, discipline and achievement. The study also investigates the development of a school-based Africentric program as well as its…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, African American Students, Males, High School Students
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
Guy, Talmadge C., Ed.; And Others – 1994
The following papers were presented at a research preconference on the implications of Afrocentrism for adult education: "The African American Adult Education Pre-Conference: Historical Reflections" (Colin); "The Perspective 'Is' the Paradigm: The Congruence of World View and Research Methodology" (Dozier-Henry);…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Afrocentrism
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
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