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Corinne Knowles – Gender and Education, 2024
Knowledge-making in universities is shaped by conventions that neglect and/or suppress less conventional kinds of knowledge that may hold viable solutions to society's problems. Knowledge always has political interests, and close-up research on knowledge-making can liberate marginalized ideas, by exposing how they push against and beyond…
Descriptors: Feminism, Knowledge Level, Afrocentrism, Courses
Norment, Nathaniel, Jr. – Composition Forum, 2021
This program profile describes the development and implementation of The Black Ink Project at Morehouse College. The Black Ink Project is a curricular initiative intended to support the development of writing abilities among the Men of Morehouse and immerse them in the writing process in the tradition of articulating servant leadership for which…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Skill Development

Giddings, Geoffrey Jahwara – Journal of Black Studies, 2001
Demonstrates how intellectual arguments to infuse Afrocentric content into the school curriculum consist mainly of efforts to replace a pervasive Eurocentric hegemony in the education of African Americans, noting the need to seriously analyze the internal and external problems this movement faces. Describes historical developments, a model for…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Culturally Relevant Education

Verharen, Charles C. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 2000
Discusses an Afrocentric curriculum in public education, describing Molefi Asante's Africology (an epistemological relativism that integrates several academic disciplines into an overarching study). Examines its epistemology and its principles for selecting languages of instruction, academic subjects, course materials, and teaching methodologies.…
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Curriculum Development

Richardson, Elaine – Journal of Black Studies, 2000
Reflects on the implementation of African-centered composition curriculum within the traditional curriculum, describing five theoretical traditions upon which the African-centered composition curriculum is based. Highlights the implementation of this curriculum at one university in 1996, noting problems encountered during the implementation that…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Students, College Students, Cultural Awareness
Ratteray, Joan Davis – 1990
The attempt by many urban school districts to develop African curricula creates a dilemma, because it usually places an African-centered program in a multicultural curriculum that is centered in the European-American educational tradition. Currently, some elements of an African and African-centered curriculum may be found in the multicultural…
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Black History, Culture Conflict

Ginwright, Shawn A. – Urban Review, 2000
Examined the interaction of social class and racial identity in urban school reform. Presents a case study of reform at one urban California high school which used an Afrocentric curriculum to help improve academic performance, arguing that the effort was ineffective because it failed to consider ways in which poverty influenced the identities of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, African Culture, African History, African Studies
Daughtry, Leslie M. – 1992
To address the needs of African American students at Beaver College in Glenside (Pennsylvania), a one-credit freshman orientation course on Afrocentricity was developed. The course was intended to increase the comfort level between the institution and its culturally diverse students and add additional support for increased retention of African…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black History

Gill, Walter – Journal of Negro Education, 1991
Examines the success of Jewish Day schools (in terms of curriculum, parent involvement, and societal implications) in the United States and Afrocentric educational programs (in terms of arguments for, focus on male students, transition to adulthood, and community involvement) in developing positive self-concepts and academic success among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Afrocentrism, Black Education, Black Students