Heritage knowledge in the curriculum : retrieving an African episteme / Joyce E. King and Ellen E. Swartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Joyce Elaine, 1947- author.

Swartz, Ellen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--Curricula.

African Americans.

Afrocentrism--Study and teaching--United States.

Afrocentrism.

Afrocentrism--Study and teaching.

African Americans--Education.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Moving beyond the content integration approach of multicultural education, this text powerfully advocates for the importance of curriculum built upon authentic knowledge construction informed by the Black intellectual tradition and an African episteme. By retrieving, examining, and reconnecting the continuity of African Diasporan heritage with school knowledge, this volume aims to repair the rupture that has silenced this cultural memory in standard historiography in general and in PK-12 curriculum content and pedagogy in particular. This ethically informed curriculum approach not only allows students of African ancestry to understand where they fit in the world but also makes the accomplishments and teachings of our collective ancestors available for the benefit of all. King and Swartz provide readers with a process for making overt and explicit the values, actions, thoughts, and behaviors reflected in an African episteme that serves as the foundation for African Diasporan sociohistorical phenomenon/events. With such knowledge, teachers can conceptualize curriculum and shape instruction that locates people in all cultures as subjects with agency whose actions embody their ongoing cultural legacy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : a conversation

Locating democracy and Benjamin Banneker

Teaching African language for historical consciousness : recovering group memory and identity

Worldview, scholarship, and instructional agency

White progressive education, African worldview, and democratic practice

A call for a reparatory justice curriculum for human freedom : re-writing the story of our dispossession and the debt owed

Returning what we learn to the people : theory and practice

Afterword / Vera L. Nobles and Wade W. Nobles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815380429

0815380429

9780815380436

0815380437

OCLC:

1012345492