African American Studies

Short  1-Based upon the reflection prompt from Class 1 and what have you learned about African American children, has your thinking changed? In what ways does this shift your position about what is needed to support the learning paradigms of African American children and what are you still curious about?

Here’s a full list of the articles and chapters I have read African Studies / African Child Development class so far:

Articles & Chapters

• “An African Educational Paradigm That Transcends Pedagogy, Andragogy, Ergonagy and Heutagogy” — Bangura
• P.R.I.D.E. Report (Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education) — White & Wanless
• “The Play of Slave Children”
• Ethnic and Racial Identity in Adolescence: Implications for Psychosocial, Academic, and Health Outcomes— Rivas-Drake et al.
• Children in Black and Mulatto Families — E. Franklin Frazier, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1933)
• Shirley Hill, Chapter 4

Early Childhood Care & Education Readings

• Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins: African Perspectives on Birth to Three — Edited by Hasina Banu Ebrahim & Auma Okwany
  • Chapter 7: “Socialisation of Children Aged Birth to 3 in Benin: Representations and Routes” — Pélagie Mongbo-Gbenahou
  • Chapter 9: “Bridging Narratives: Intergenerational Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge in the Care and Education of Children from Birth to 3 in Madagascar” — Zanafy Gladys Abdoul
• “Indigenous Education During the Pre-colonial Period in Southern Africa”