Educating African Canadians

by Keren S. Brathwaite, Carl E. James

Overview

This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success.

Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to this collection alert readers to many of the challenges that African Canadians face in the educational system. They discuss new initiatives and suggest new directions that might improve the academic success of Black students.

Educating African Canadians offers practical suggestions that can enhance the education not only of African Canadian students, but of all students.

An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552779576
Publisher:	James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	Our Schools
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	760 KB

About the Author

KEREN S. BRATHWAITE is a founding member of the Transitional Year Programme, University of Toronto.
CARL E. JAMES teaches in the faculty of education at York University.

Table of Contents

Contents:

Part I: Assessing the Educational Experiences of African Canadians
1 The Education of African Canadians
2 Listening to Voices
3 Confronting a History of Exclusion
4 Early Childhood Education

Part II: Parents, School and Community Linkages
5 Organizing for Educational Change
6 The Role of Parents
7 Teachers and Parents

Part III: Examining Curricular Programmes
8 Students' Responses to Black Characters
9 African Studies Courses in High Schools
10 Black History Month

Part IV: Programmes to Enhance the Educational Attainment of Black Students
11 School-University Partnership
12 Creating an Opportunity Structure for Teachers of Colour
13 The Transitional Year Programme at U of T

Part V: Providing Culturally Appropriate Education
14 Black Youth, Athletics and Schooling
15 Beyond Sameness
16 African-centred Schools