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Schooling and Education in Africa

The Case of Ghana

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

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Schooling and Education in Africa

The Case of Ghana

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

Using the Ghanian schooling experience as a case study, this book explores how research can contribute to the development of a body of knowledge for educational change in Africa. Education in Africa is often said to be in a crisis' caused in part by the colonial legacy, but also due to inappropriate and uncontextualised current educational policies in relation to local human conditions and African realities. This book offers a critical analysis of current educational reform strategies and the actual practice of reform in an African context.

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Africa World Press

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1592210031

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Teaching Africa

Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy

By: George J. Sefa Dei

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Teaching Africa

Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy

By: George J. Sefa Dei

One is always struck by the brilliant work of George Sefa Dei but nothing so far has demonstrated his pedagogical leadership as much as the current project. With a sense of purpose so pure and so thoroughly intellectual, Dei shows why he must be credited with continuing the motivation and action for justice in education. He has produced in this powerful volume, Teaching Africa, the same type of close reasoning that has given him credibility in the anti-racist struggle in education. Sustaining the case for the democratization of education and the revising of the pedagogical method to include Indigenous knowledge are the twin pillars of his style. A key component of this new science of pedagogy is the crusade against any form of hegemonic education where one group of people assumes that they are the masters of everyone else. Whether this happens in South Africa, Canada, United States, India, Iraq, Brazil, or China, Dei’s insights suggest that this hegemony of education in pluralistic and multi-ethnic societies is a false construction. We live pre-eminently in a world of co-cultures, not cultures and sub-cultures, and once we understand this difference, we will have a better approach to education and equity in the human condition.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402057717

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Reconstructing 'drop-out'

A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Josephine Mazzuca,Elizabeth McIsaac,Jasmin Zine

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Reconstructing 'drop-out'

A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Josephine Mazzuca,Elizabeth McIsaac,Jasmin Zine

Based on the narratives of Black and non-Black students, teachers, parents, and community workers, this book examines the dilemma of African-Canadian students who lose interest and leave school.

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University of Toronto Press

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080208060X

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9780802080608

Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education

By: George J. Sefa Dei,Wambui Karanja,Grace Erger

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Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education

By: George J. Sefa Dei,Wambui Karanja,Grace Erger

This book makes a strong case for the inclusion of Indigenous Elders’ cultural knowledge in the delivery of inclusive education for learners who are members of minority communities. It is relevant to curriculum developers, teachers, policy makers and institutions that engage in the education of Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other minority students. This book provides opportunities for exploring the decolonization of educational approaches. It promotes the synthesis of multiple types of knowledge and ways of knowing by making a case for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous Elders as teachers in learning spaces. The book is of interest to educators, students, and researchers of Indigenous knowledge and decolonizing education. Additionally, it is important for educational policy makers, especially those engaged in looking for strategic solutions to bridging educational disparities and gaps for Indigenous, Black, Latinx and other minority learners.

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Springer Nature

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3030842010

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9783030842017

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines

By: Gloria Emeagwali,George J Sefa Dei

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African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines

By: Gloria Emeagwali,George J Sefa Dei

This text explores the multidisciplinary context of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from scholars and scholar activists committed to the interrogation, production, articulation, dissemination and general development of endogenous and indigenous modes of intellectual activity and praxis. The work reinforces the demand for the decolonization of the academy and makes the case for a paradigmatic shift in content, subject matter and curriculum in institutions in Africa and elsewhere – with a view to challenging and rejecting disinformation and intellectual servitude. Indigenous intellectual discourses related to diverse disciplines take center stage in this volume with a focus on education, mathematics, medicine, chemistry and engineering in their historical and contemporary context.

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Springer

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9462097704

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9789462097704

Playing the Race Card

Exposing White Power and Privilege

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Leeno Luke Karumanchery,Nisha Karumanchery-Luik

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Playing the Race Card

Exposing White Power and Privilege

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Leeno Luke Karumanchery,Nisha Karumanchery-Luik

Playing the Race Card reflects and engages the dynamic nature of racialized experience in Western contexts. It examines today's anti-racism project to discern how it might benefit from integrating strategies that work toward the development of critical consciousness as its main goal. So that the privileged and the oppressed alike may reflexively examine their own subject positions, this book identifies and addresses the need to develop a working model for anti-racism strategies. Given the need to understand and move beyond static conceptions of race and racism, Playing the Race Card offers both a critique of mainstream/privileged perceptions of racial oppression, as well as a direction forward within a more «organic» approach to social reform.

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Peter Lang

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0820467529

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9780820467528

Schooling and Difference in Africa

Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan,Sharon Eblaghie Bahador,Alireza Asgharzadeh

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Schooling and Difference in Africa

Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan,Sharon Eblaghie Bahador,Alireza Asgharzadeh

Since the 1950s when most African countries gained political independence, schooling has presented very difficult challenges. In the discussion of these challenges, however, the issue of diversity has received relatively little attention. Schooling and Difference in Africa aims to understand how differences such as ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, and disability play out in African schools systems, and more specifically in Ghana. Together, George J. Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador, and Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan promote 'educational inclusion' in the context of African schooling. The aspects of diversity explored in this study include: minority / majority relations, race, ethnicity, gender, language, class, religion, and physical (dis)ability. The authors build their analyses of these issues around a series of interviews, which project a perspective that policy makers and administrators rarely seek out. By studying the challenges of inclusive education in Ghana and, further, by making comparisons with the Canadian context, this volume seeks to shed light on the ongoing struggle for an empowering school system in Africa and elsewhere.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802048943

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9780802048943

New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Arlo Kempf

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New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Arlo Kempf

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.

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Canadian Scholars’ Press

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1551304171

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9781551304175

Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms

By: George J. Sefa Dei

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Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms

By: George J. Sefa Dei

This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly when relegated to the colonial power and privileged experiences of settler. The book does so by arguing that this practice perpetuates procedures of violence and social injustice upon Black and African peoples. The book brings critical readings to Black racial identity, representation and politics informed by pertinent questions: What are the tools/frameworks Black peoples in Euro-American/Canadian contexts can deploy to forge community and solidarity, and to resist anti-Black racism and other social oppressions? What critical analytical tools can be developed to account for Black lived experiences, agency and resistance? What are the limits of the tools or frameworks for anti-racist, anti-colonial work? How do such critical tools or frameworks of Blackness and anti-Blackness assist in anti-racist and anti-colonial practice? The book provides new coordinates for collective and global mobilization by troubling the politics of “decolonizing solidarity” as pointing to new ways for forging critical friends and political workers. The book concludes by offering some important lessons for teaching and learning about Blackness and anti-Blackness confronting some contemporary issues of schooling and education in Euro-American contexts, and suggesting ways to foster dialogic and generative forums for such critical discussions.

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Springer

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3319530798

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Racists Beware

Uncovering Racial Politics in the Post Modern Society

By: George J. Sefa Dei

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Racists Beware

Uncovering Racial Politics in the Post Modern Society

By: George J. Sefa Dei

With admirable clarity and directness, George Dei exposes the tendency towards the racial re-feudalization of the contemporary public sphere in Canada and, by association, other post-industrial societies. He points to the enormous opportunity costs imposed on racial minorities in the new millennium as a consequence. In RACISTS BEWARE: UNCOVERING RACIAL POLITICS IN THE POSTMODERN SOCIETY, Dei identifies and subjects to close scrutiny the new race-bending logics of what he calls “postmodern” societies in which the dwellers of the suburbs and members of the itinerant white professional middle class (the great beneficiaries of late capitalism and neoliberalization of the economy) now have become the new social plaintiff turning the complaint of racial inequality and discrimination on the heads of those most oppressed. If Gayatri Spivak asks “Can the subaltern speak?” then Dei brilliantly poses the question: “When will Anglo-dominant groups, even critical ones, ever listen?” This book is likely to provoke and influence discussion on racial antagonism for a long, long time to come.

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BRILL

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9087902786

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The History of Blacks in Canada

A Selectively Annotated Bibliography

By: George H. Junne

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The History of Blacks in Canada

A Selectively Annotated Bibliography

By: George H. Junne

This fascinating bibliography of source materials clearly demonstrates the significant roles blacks have played in the history and culture of Canada from its beginnings as well as their 400-year fight for equity and justice. Organized by area of endeavor and by province, the source materials detailed here reveal that blacks in Canada have created a rich, diverse, and complex legacy. This volume lists resources that point to blacks' history as soldiers, prospectors, educators, cowboys, homesteaders, entertainers, legislators, athletes, artists, servants, and writers. The most comprehensive bibliography about blacks in Canada that has been published, it is well organized to facilitate locating specific topics or people spanning black history. Also included are newspapers and videos that add their own unique contribution. Academicians, researchers, students, and interested lay people will find an organized compilation of a vast number of primary and secondary sources about blacks in Canada.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313017107

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9780313017100

Odysseys Home

Mapping African-Canadian Literature

By: George Elliott Clarke

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Odysseys Home

Mapping African-Canadian Literature

By: George Elliott Clarke

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487516789

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Schooling and Education in Africa

The Case of Ghana

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

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The Case of Ghana

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Removing the Margins

The Challenges and Possibilities of Inclusive Schooling

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

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Removing the Margins

The Challenges and Possibilities of Inclusive Schooling

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

Removing the Margins works to identify and challenge many of the cultural and systematic paradigms that perpetuate racism and other forms of oppression in mainstream schooling. The authors pursue the ideal that education should not simply affirm the status quo but should produce knowledge for social action. This philosophical and theoretical resource also moves beyond the study of educational failure to explore the new and creative ways schooling barriers have been confronted. The focus is placed on the factors of representation, family and community, staff equity, language integration and spirituality as fundamental to school reform. Removing the Margins is the product of five years of research and writing in the search for best practices in inclusive education. The authors address the philosophical and theoretical bases for inclusivity in this book, while laying out the practical approach in the accompanying volume Inclusive Schooling: A Teacher's Guide to Removing the Margins.

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Canadian Scholars’ Press

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1551301539

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Teaching Africa

Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy

By: George J. Sefa Dei

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Teaching Africa

Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy

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Removing the Margins

The Challenges and Possibilities of Inclusive Schooling

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

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The Challenges and Possibilities of Inclusive Schooling

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Reconstructing 'dropout'

A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

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A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei

Based on the narratives of Black and non-Black students, teachers, parents, and community workers, this book examines the dilemma of African-Canadian students who lose interest and leave school.

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080204199X

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Reconstructing 'drop-out'

A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Josephine Mazzuca,Elizabeth McIsaac,Jasmin Zine

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Reconstructing 'drop-out'

A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

By: George Jerry Sefa Dei,Josephine Mazzuca,Elizabeth McIsaac,Jasmin Zine

Based on the narratives of Black and non-Black students, teachers, parents, and community workers, this book examines the dilemma of African-Canadian students who lose interest and leave school.

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