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Teaira McMurtry – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
America's strength lies in its inherent diversity--an enduring truth that makes the Eurocentric nature of our educational curricula troubling. Despite this foundational reality, curricular materials remain predominantly Eurocentric, often excluding authentic representation and inclusion of Black/African American experiences in children's and young…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism
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Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor – Journal of Black Studies, 1997
The study of controversies about the legitimacy and historical groundedness of assertions about African civilization is used to support an Afrocological teaching approach to African civilization, exploring the content of the American college curriculum. There is a historically factual basis for a holistic pedagogical approach to African…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Studies
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Woodyard, Jeffrey Lynn – Journal of Black Studies, 1991
Analyzes the history of the development of African-American studies as a social science and humanities discipline, and contends that the field is so new it has no history of its own. The inception of the Temple University (Pennsylvania) School of Afrocentric Scholarship marks the discipline's real birth. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Afrocentrism, Black History, Black Studies
Bowser, Benjamin P., Ed.; And Others – 1995
This book is about the growing need for a more inclusive curriculum and university. The debate about multicultural education is moved from an ideological debate to the realm of the practical in these selections. The first part of the book outlines the demographic and historic realities that make multiculturalism imperative. The second part gives…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Awareness
Powell, Frances J. – 1991
An African centered curriculum has two parts. It is both a process that centers around the cultural heritage of African Americans, and the infusion of content that will stimulate and/or reinforce the growth and development of African and African-American mental and ethical traits. The scholars who are the main proponents of an African centered…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Culture
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1991
The cult of ethnicity in general and the Afrocentric campaign in particular do not bode well for U.S. education or for the future of the country. The debate over ethnocentric curricula is traced. Commentaries by R. Walters and D. D'Souza elaborate on issues of multicultural education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development
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Lewis, Robert A., Jr. – Journal of American History, 1994
Contends that a common concern of college faculty is the unpreparedness of incoming freshmen for the demands of college scholarship. Asserts that the public schools have sacrificed educational quality for public relations and the personal advancement of teachers and administrators. (CFR)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Articulation (Education), Blacks, Curriculum Development
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Singer, Alan – Social Education, 1993
Reviews the debate concerning the impact of Afrocentric education and multicultural education on U.S. history instruction and course content. Responds to criticisms of Afrocentric education by historians Diane Ravitch and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Contends that multicultural education can help recognize divisions in U.S. society and show a…
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Studies