{"product_id":"the-afrocentric-praxis-of-teaching-for-freedom-connecting-culture-to-learning-paperback","title":"The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom: Connecting Culture to Learning - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce E. King\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEllen E. Swartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book expands the Afrocentric praxis presented in the authors' \u003ci\u003e\"Re-membering\" History in Teacher and Student Learning \u003c\/i\u003eby combining \"re-membered\" (democratized) historical content with emancipatory pedagogies that are connected to an African cultural platform. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyce E. King\u003c\/strong\u003e holds the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen E. Swartz is an independent scholar and education consultant in curriculum development and the construction of culturally informed instructional materials for K-12 teachers and students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52505127846195,"sku":"9781138904941","price":122.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/b0Q4ZlU4TVBvQ0twb2NTNklvZ25MZz09.webp?v=1760212609","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-afrocentric-praxis-of-teaching-for-freedom-connecting-culture-to-learning-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}