African-Centered Education: An Approach to Schooling for Social Justice for African American Students

Autor/inn/en	Marks, Jay B.; Tonso, Karen L.
Titel	African-Centered Education: An Approach to Schooling for Social Justice for African American Students
Quelle	In: Education, 126 (2006) 3, S.481-494 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1172
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Public Education; Justice; Educational Opportunities; Democracy; African American Students; Foreign Countries; Equal Education; Ethnicity; Culturally Relevant Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Erziehung; Gerechtigkeit; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Demokratie; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ausland; Ethnizität
Abstract	This essay argues that offering African American students an African-centered education is one way to promote social justice in public education. We begin with a summary of the inadequate educations offered to many African American students, and then use philosophical interpretations of equal educational opportunity to delineate the requirements of participation in a democracy. From this position, we contend that forms of schooling that teach subordination and alienation undermine democratic participation--the ability to advocate for one's best interests and accord others respect for doing likewise--and that this is unjust. One way to counter social injustice and regain a sense of community and ethnic self-worth is African-centered education, which we describe. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10