The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom : Connecting Culture to Learning

__The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom__ explains 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 continuities––seen in the actions of Diasporan groups and individuals––that consistently exhibit an African worldview or cultural framework * To provide teachers with content drawn from Africa’s legacy to humanity as a model for locating all students––and the cultures and groups they represent––as 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in the authors’ __"Re-membering" History in Teacher and Student Learning__ by combining "re-membered" (democratized) historical content with emancipatory pedagogies that are connected to an African cultural platform. "The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains 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 continuities––seen in the actions of Diasporan groups and individuals––that consistently exhibit an African worldview or cultural framework ; and To provide teachers with content drawn from Africa’s legacy to humanity as a model for locating all students––and the cultures and groups they represent––as subjects in the curriculum and pedagogy of schooling." -- Publisher's website Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS A Note about the Cover Image Foreword Preface as Prequel Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: “Re-membering” More 2 Culture Connects 3 Harriet Tubman: “Re-membering” Cultural Continuities 4 “Re-membering” the Jeanes Teachers 5 “Re-membering” Cultural Concepts 6 Practicing Cultural Concepts and Continuity About the Authors Index This book shows 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.