New Perspectives On African Centred Education In Canada

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551304171
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada written by George Jerry Sefa Dei and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada is the first study of African-centred schooling in the Canadian context. Starting with an in-depth look at the creation of an Africentric public school within the Toronto District School Board, it tells the story of the movement behind that school's creation and lays bare a rich history of activism, organization, and resistance on the part of numerous African Canadian communities and their allies. The book presents a critical overview of the issues facing racialized students and offers a unique vision of African-centred education as a strategy for student engagement and social transformation. The authors, well known public commentators on African-centred education in Canada, offer a comprehensive analysis of the media controversy surrounding African-centred schools, as well as candid reflections on the personal challenges of fighting a largely unpopular battle.

Author : Kiaras Gharabaghi
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1773381954
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child and Youth Care across Sectors, Volume 2 written by Kiaras Gharabaghi and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child and Youth Care across Sectors aims to reflect the changing field by capturing a diverse array of themes and issues through an inclusive framework. In Volume 2, the contributors continue the discussion on sectors and contexts of child and youth care, with an emphasis on giving space and voice to different ways of thinking about and describing the field. Focusing on acknowledging and confronting the complex issues within child and youth care, this new volume includes groundbreaking chapters on pertinent topics from homelessness to immigration, antiracism, African-centred praxis, and Indigenous ways of being. Expanding from the first volume, this text explores additional settings of child and youth care, including hospitals, schools, day treatment programs, and the complicated youth criminal justice sector. As the field of child and youth care continues to evolve, this timely and thought-provoking text will be vital for students, scholars, and practitioners in child and youth care, in Canada and abroad. FEATURES: - Incorporates discussions on Canada’s northern provinces and territories,specifically Labrador and Nunavut, in child and youth care contexts and regions typically neglected in the field - Includes chapters centering Indigenous ways of being and thinking, written by Indigenous scholars

Author : George J. Sefa Dei
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400776276
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning written by George J. Sefa Dei and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic and simultaneously work with multiple sites of oppression, without reifying hierarchies of difference? How can anti-racism education be engaged to speak to historical questions of power and privilege, within conventional schooling practices? How do we recognize anti-racism education in its many iterations? In this book the authors explore the knowledge that constitutes anti-racism education and the ways in which knowledge constitutive of anti-racism education becomes embodied through particular pedagogues. The authors are anti-racism educators with experiences in diverse settings: the chapters cover various fields and socio-historic geographies, address contemporary educational issues, and are situated within personal-political, historical and philosophical conversations. Anti-racism education is a discursive stance and steeped in politics that shape and are shaped by everyday conversations, theories, and practices. The essays in this collection work through many of the possibilities and limitations of engaging in counter-hegemonic education for transformative learning. Readers will discover lived experiences, theory, practice and critical reflexivity.

Author : Funké Aladejebi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007046
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooling the System written by Funké Aladejebi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post–World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers’ college through their careers in the classroom and administration, black women educators encountered systemic racism and gender barriers at every step. So they worked to change the system. Using oral narratives to tell the story of black access and education in Ontario between the 1940s and the 1980s, Schooling the System provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women’s distinct experiences within the profession. By valuing women’s voices and lived experiences, Funké Aladejebi illustrates that black women, as a diverse group, made vital contributions to the creation and development of anti-racist education in Canada. As cultural mediators within Ontario school systems, these women circumvented subtle and overt forms of racial and social exclusion to create resistive teaching methods that centred black knowledges and traditions. Within their wider communities and activist circles, they fought to change entrenched ideas about what Canadian citizenship should look like. As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.

Author : Gulson, Kalervo N.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144733521X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education policy and racial biopolitics written by Gulson, Kalervo N. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula. It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural narratives about the establishment of the school – violence, anti-racism and race-based statistics, policy entrepreneurs, and the re-birth of alternative schools in Toronto - to illustrate how these events ostensibly functioned through neoliberal choice mechanisms and practices. Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics of education in multicultural cities.

Author : Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 1773383078
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice Education in Canada written by Ali A. Abdi and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging edited collection highlights key discussions around educational inequity and related structures and sub-structures. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, Social Justice Education in Canada balances important knowledge, learning practices, and possibilities emanating from and embedded in anti-racist and anti-oppressive education with instructive, grounding examples. The text confronts the idea of social justice as an abstract concept, discussing suggestions for rethinking educational systems and making changes that will benefit the learning lives of all students. With the aim to critically expand the emerging and increasingly active debates in this important area of educational and social development, this volume strives to collectively deepen our understanding and appreciation for critical social justice education. Organized into 14 chapters and featuring an epilogue written by Dr. Edward Shizha, the book critically deals with contemporary topical issues in education, including readings on cultural, racial, religious, Indigenous, language, socio-economic, citizenship, disability/ableism, and immigrant/refugee status realities and their interwoven learning and teaching intersections. This text is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of education across Canada. FEATURES: - Designed to spark discussions and debates, each chapter closes with discussion questions to encourage critical reflection - Contributors move beyond the theoretical with actionable, practical applications for critical social justice that can be utilized by educators and teacher educators - Intersecting topical diversity is at the forefront of this volume, which features contributors from different backgrounds and communities critically engaging with issues pertinent to social justice and equity in education

Author : Awad Ibrahim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487528701
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy written by Awad Ibrahim and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.

Author : George J. Sefa Dei
Publisher : Myers Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1975501098
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities written by George J. Sefa Dei and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities acknowledges the saliency of Blackness in contemporary social formations, insisting that how bodies are read is extremely important. The contributors to this volume elicit or produce both tangible and intangible social, political, material, spiritual and emotional effects and consequences on Black and African bodies, globally. It is a call to celebrate Blackness in all its complexities, including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, spiritualities, and geographies. Understanding Blackness is to insist on Black and African political and cultural appreciation of the phenomenon outside of Euro-colonial attempts to regulate and define how Black and African bodies are perceived. This book intersperses discussions of Blackness with Black racial identity and cultural politics and the required responsibilities for the Global Black and African populations to build viable communities utilizing our differences—knowledges, cultures, politics, identities, histories—as strengths.

Author : Ahmad R. Washington
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641137967
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships written by Ahmad R. Washington and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although teachers, school counselors, and administrators are all situated within educational settings tasked with supporting students' educational development, rarely do these professionals have sufficient opportunities to learn from and collaborate with one another before entering these schools. Unfortunately, many of these professionals are unaware of the primary and secondary responsibilities their peers and colleagues assume. What's worse, this lack of insight potentially compromises the extent to which educational leaders can forge effective partnerships that benefit students from the most alienated, disenfranchised and marginalized communities (e.g., Black children in under-resourced schools). While the educational discourse has included recommendations for maximizing interactions between these educational professionals, the collective voices of teachers, school counselors and administrators in regards to these issues has not been adequately examined. Thus, this book is a compilation of manuscripts and studies that explore partnerships and strategies educators and educational leaders use to produce positive socio-educational outcomes for Black students in various contexts. "Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices" is unique because it illuminates examples of effective school-community partnerships that foster positive student outcomes. "Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices" is intended as a practical text for committed educational leaders, at different professional points (e.g., practicing teachers, pre-service school counselors and teachers), who are eager to transform the current educational trajectory of Black children through interventions that show promise.

Author : Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004447822
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Theorizations of Education written by Ali A. Abdi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely both in its topical relevance and time-space themed discursive interventions, analysis and recommendations, this edited volume examines and prospectively expands, with the critical as is performative construct, upon contemporary intersections of education, knowledge and social wellbeing.