The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom Connecting Culture to Learning [Hardcover]

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedomexplains and illustrates how an African worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve African heritage and cultural knowledge which have been historically discounted and decoupled from teaching and learning. The book has three objectives:

• To exemplify how each of the emancipatory pedagogies it delineates and demonstrates is supported by African worldview concepts and parallel knowledge, general understandings, values, and claims that are produced by that worldview
• To make African Diasporan cultural connections visible in the curriculum through numerous examples of cultural continuitiesseen in the actions of Diasporan groups and individualsthat consistently exhibit an African worldview or cultural framework
• To provide teachers with content drawn from Africas legacy to humanity as a model for locating all studentsand the cultures and groups they representas subjects in the curriculum and pedagogy of schooling

This book expands the Afrocentric praxis presented in the authors Re-membering History in Teacher and Student Learning by combining re-membered (democratized) historical content with emancipatory pedagogies that are connected to an African cultural platform.

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Foreword by Adelaide L. Hines Sanford

Preface as Prequel

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: Re-membering More

Chapter 2:Culture Connects

Chapter 3: Harriet Tubman: Re-membering Cultural Continuities

Chapter 4: Re-membering the Jeanes Teachers

Chapter 5: Re-membering Cultural Concepts

Chapter 6: Practicing Cultural Concepts and Continuity