Author: Michael Bamidele Adeyemi
Publisher: Pyramid Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: C W Gutkind
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853453810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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African Social Studies: A Radical Reader, is an essential and wide-ranging collection of essays by some of the world's finest social scientists, known and lesser-known. This impressive collection covers issues such as the legacy of colonialism, imperialism, problems in the field of African Studies, national liberation movements, and more. No student of Africa should be without this volume.

Author: Astair Zekiros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Paulo Freire
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780937814
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Paulo Freire outlines the revolutionary principles behind the educational methods that have made him one of the 20th century's most influential education theorists.

Author: Merry M. Merryfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Written by 25 African educators from 15 African nations that make up the African Social Studies Programme (ASSP), a Pan-African organization headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, this document is designed to supplement the sparse material on Africa available in the K-12 curriculum and textbooks in the United States, and these 11 lessons encourage U.S. middle schools to explore, appreciate, and become aware of African culture. The topics of the lessons include: (1) diverse lifestyles; (2) cross-cultural understanding; (3) Ghanaian culture; (4) marriage customs in Liberia, Malawi, and Uganda; (5) Yoruba infant naming ceremonies; (6) cuisine and etiquette in Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia; (7) Swazi culture; (8) family life in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia; (9) education in Lesotho; (10) youth employment opportunities in Nigeria; and (11) African perspectives of the United States. Each lesson includes a preview, learning objectives, required resources, teaching procedures, and student activities and exercises. Handouts, drawings, a select bibliography, and lists of U.S. African studies centers, organizations, and publishers are also included. (DJC)

Author: Robert H. Bates
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226039013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders touch those of economics, literature, history, philosophy, and art; its history is the story of the world, both ancient and modern. This is the clear conclusion of Africa and the Disciplines, a book that addresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? This question was put to distinguished scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines. Their responses make a strong and enlightening case for the importance of research on Africa to the academy. Paul Collier's essay, for example, shows how studies of African economies have clarified our understanding of the small open economies, and contributed to the theory of repressed inflation and to a number of areas in microeconomics as well. Art historian Suzanne Blier uses the terms and concepts that her discipline has applied to Africa to analyze the habits of mind and social practice of her own field. Christopher L. Miller describes the confounding and enriching impact of Africa on European and American literary theory. Political scientist Richard Sklar outlines Africa's contributions to the study of political modernization, pluralism, and rational choice. These essays, together with others from scholars in history, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative literature, attest to the influence of African research throughout the curriculum. For many, knowledge from Africa seems distant and exotic. These powerful essays suggest the contrary: that such knowledge has shaped the way in which scholars in various disciplines understand their worlds. Eloquent testimony to Africa's necessary place in the mainstream of American education, this book should alter the academy's understanding of the significance of African research, its definition of core and periphery in human knowledge. "These essays are at once exceptionally thoughtful and remarkably comprehensive. Not only do they offer an unusually interesting overview of African studies; they are also striking for the depth and freshness of their insights. This is the sort of volume from which both seasoned regional experts and students stand to learn an enormous amount."—John Comaroff, University of Chicago "These essays provide an important perspective on the evolution of African studies and offer insights into what Africa can mean for the different humanistic and social science disciplines. Many show in ingenious and subtle ways the enormous potential that the study of Africa has for confounding the main tenets of established fields. One could only hope that the strictures expressed here would be taken to heart in the scholarly world."—Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University

Author: National Council for the Social Studies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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Author: Merry M. Merryfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Sarah Rich Dorman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004157905
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.

Author: P. Muyanda-Mutebi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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