Full Description
Connecting cultures to educational settings is an essential component of critical pedagogy. This book addresses many of the key issues and challenges in decolonizing the African school curriculum. It highlights important philosophical arguments on the challenges and possibilities of achieving these goals in a meaningful manner. Topics covered in the book include:
operationalizing the key terms of "inclusion" and "curriculum"
strategies for Africanizing the school curriculum, and
the implications of local knowledge for schooling reform.
This book also raises a variety of key questions:
how do we frame an inclusive anti-colonial African future and what is the nature of the work required to collectively arrive at that future?
what education are learners of today going to receive and how will they apply it to their schooling and work lives?
how do we re-fashion our work as African educators and learners to create more relevant understandings of what it means to be human?
how do we challenge colonizing and imperializing relations of the academy? What are the possibilities and limits of counter-visions of education?
how do we make school curricula inclusive through teaching, research and graduate training in questions of Indigeneity and multi-centric ways of knowing?
The book identifies specific areas of an "inclusive/decolonized curriculum agenda" through educational programming and reform. It is essential reading to any student or teacher concerned about understanding the many facets of an African school curriculum.
Contents
Introduction
Africanizing the School Curriculum: Promoting an Inclusive, Decolonial Education in African Contexts: An Introduction
Anthony Afful-Broni, Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Kolawole Raheem, and George J. Sefa Dei
Chapter 1. Decolonizing Knowledge in the Bosom of the "Marketplace": Makerere University Scholars in the Age of the National Resistance Movement's Neoliberal Policies (1989-2007)
Nakanyike Musisi
Chapter 2. An Antiracist Education Critique of Curriculum Policy Reform in Postapartheid South Africa
Samiera Zafar
Chapter 3. Africanizing the Ghanaian Education System: Learning Through the Prism of an Africentric System of Thought
Patrick Radebe
Chapter 4. Decolonized Curriculum in Colonized Contexts: Assessing Ghanaian Public Schools' Role in the Decolonization Agenda
Richardson Addai-Mununkum and Nyuiemedi Agordzo Edoh-Torgah
Chapter 5. Indigenous African Philosophies as a Critical Thinking Pedagogical Tool for Schooling and Education
Isaac Nortey Darko, Paul Banahene Adjei, and Chloe Weir
Chapter 6
Spirituality and Self-Care Among Ghanaian Social Workers: Lessons for Africanizing Social Work Education
Paul Banahene Adjei, Isaac Nortey Darko, Sulemana Fuseini, and Abigail Adubea Mills
Chapter 7. Contextualized Role-Play, Inquiry, and Eco-Management in Teaching Environmental Education in Junior High Schools in Ghana
Louis Atsiatorme and Kolawole Raheem
Chapter 8. Global Anti-Blackness and Resistance: Implications for Educating African Learners
Rowena Linton
Chapter 9. How the Mainstream Media Signified Ben Johnson: A Tale of a Black Canadian Sports Hero Turned Jamaican Villain and the Implications for Black Students
Patrick Radebe
Chapter 10. Rethinking Curriculum Through Critical Blackness and African Indigenous Knowledges: A Black Educator's Response
Janelle Baptiste-Brady
Epilogue
Connecting Missing Links: A Voice From the Diaspora
Rukiya Mohamed
Contributors
Index
NOTE: Table of Contents subject to change up until publication date.
