Full Description
Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational achievement of African American children.
What can teachers, administrators, families, and communities do to create schools that provide rich learning experiences for African American children? Based on a critical reinterpretation of several key educational frameworks, African-Centered Pedagogy is a practical guide to accomplished teaching. Murrell suggests integrating the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a unified system of instruction, bringing to light those practices that already exist and linking them to contemporary ideas and innovations that concern effective practice in African American communities. This is then applied through a case study analysis of a school seeking to incorporate the unified theory and embrace African-centered practice. Murrell argues that key educational frameworks-although currently ineffective with African American children-hold promise if reinterpreted.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Framing the Work
1. The Wrong Frames for the Right Problem
2. Traditions of African American Education: A Historical Perspective
3. Culture, Cognition, and the Community of Achievement
Part II: Pedagogical Theory for Building a Community of African American Achievement
4. Overview of the Pedagogical Theory
5. From a Community of Caring to a Community of Achievement
6. Teaching as Assisted Performance in the African American Tradition
7. The Classroom Ecology of Culture and Language
8. Discourse Practices in a Community of Achievement
9. Teaching for Understanding, Learning and Liberation
10. Appraising My Own Practice: African-Centered Pedagogy in Preparing Teachers
Appendices
References
Index
