Freedom Fighters

by Pitre, Abul

• ISBN13: 9781609270834
• ISBN10: 1609270835
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-30
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Pub

Summary

Freedom Fighters: Struggles Instituting Black History in K-12 Education captures the ongoing struggle to implement multicultural curricula in schools. It details how African American students, caught in the vicious cycle of territorial fights, low-test scores, and placed at risk for dropping out of school, experienced self-transformation through the study of Black history. Student leaders describe their experiences with a controversial Black history program that led to the removal of a teacher who used a critical pedagogical approach to teaching. Drawing from the theoretical constructs found in Afrocentric education, critical pedagogy, and multicultural education, this book introduces a new concept for educating African American students, coined critical Black pedagogy in education. Scholars and leaders, such as Elijah Muhammad, Carter G. Woodson, Paulo Freire, James Banks, and others provide compelling arguments that cogently describe the challenge of educating African American students for liberation. Students, teachers, educational leaders, and others will discover compelling reasons why students, educators and prospective educators need to be introduced to Black History. Using real world examples, this is an ideal book for courses on the foundations of education, multicultural education and critical pedagogy among others. Get a glimpse of how a leader like Malcolm X was educated to become a freedom fighter!