Black Education : A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century

by King, Joyce E.; Gordon, Beverly; Sanford, Adelaide; Frierson, Jr., Henry T.

• ISBN13: 9780805854572
• ISBN10: 0805854576
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-02
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and offers new directions for research and practice. By commissioning an independent group of scholars of diverse perspectives and voices to investigate major issues hindering the education of Black people in the U.S., other Diaspora contexts, and Africa, the AERA sought to place issues of Black education and research practice in the forefront of the agenda of the scholarly community. An unprecedented critical challenge to orthodox thinking, this book makes an epistemological break with mainstream scholarship. Contributors present research on proven solutions--best practices--that prepare Black students and others to achieve at high levels of academic excellence and to be agents of their own socioeconomic and cultural transformation. These analyses and empirical findings also link the crisis in Black education to embedded ideological biases in research and the system of thought that often justifies the abject state of Black education. Written for both a scholarly and a general audience, this book demonstrates a transformative role for research and a positive role for culture in learning, in the academy, and in community and cross-national contexts. Volume editor Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University and was chair of CORIBE. Additional Resources Black Education [CD-ROM] Research and Best Practices 1999-2001 Edited by Joyce E. King Georgia State University Informed by diverse perspectives and voices of leading researchers, teacher educators and classroom teachers, this rich, interactive CD-ROM contains an archive of the empirical findings, recommendations, and best practices assembled by the Commission on Research in Black Education. Dynamic multi-media presentations document concrete examples of transformative practice that prepare Black students and others to achieve academic and cultural excellence. This CD-ROM was produced with a grant from the SOROS Foundation, Open Society Institute. 0-8058-5564-5 [CD-ROM] / 2005 / Free Upon Request A Detroit Conversation [Video] Edited by Joyce E. King Georgia State University In this 20-minute video-documentary a diverse panel of educators--teachers, administrators, professors, a "reform" Board member, and parent and community activists--engage in a "no holds barred" conversation about testing, teacher preparation, and what is and is not working in Detroit schools, including a school for pregnant and parenting teens and Timbuktu Academy. Concrete suggestions for research and practice are offered. 0-8058-5625-0 [Video] / 2005 / $10.00 A Charge to Keep [Video] The Findings and Recommendations of te AERA Commission on Research in Black Education Edited by Joyce E. King Georgia State University This 50-minute video documents the findings and recommendations of the Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE), including exemplary educational approaches that CORIBE identified, cameo commentaries by Lisa Delpit, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kathy Au, Donna Gollnick, Adelaide L. Sanford, Asa Hilliard, Edmund Gordon and others, and an extended interview with Sylvia Wynter. 0-8058-5626-9 [Video] / 2005 / $10.00

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
Preface	xxi
Part I Theorizing Transformative Black Education Research and Practice	1	(42)
A Transformative Vision of Black Education for Human Freedom	3	(16)
Joyce E. King
A Declaration of Intellectual Independence for Human Freedom	19	(24)
Joyce E. King
Part II Taking Culture Into Account: Learning Theory and Black Education	43	(72)
The State of Knowledge About the Education of African Americans	45	(28)
Carol D. Lee
Intervention Research Based on Current Views of Cognition and Learning	73	(42)
Carol D. Lee
Part III Expanding the Knowledgebase in Black Education and Research Globally	115	(42)
Colonial Education in Africa: Retrospects and Prospects	117	(18)
William H. Watkins
Black Populations Globally: The Costs of the Underutilization of Blacks in Education	135	(22)
Kassie Freeman
Part IV Engaging the Language and Policy Nexus in African Education	157	(38)
When the Language of Education Is Not the Language of Culture: The Epistemology of Systems of Knowledge and Pedagogy	159	(24)
Hassimi Oumarou Maiga
Initiating Transformations of Realities in African and African American Universities	183	(12)
Beverly Lindsay
Part V Situating Equity Policy and Pedagogy in the Political Economic Context	195	(46)
New Standards and Old Inequalities: School Reform and the Education of African American Students	197	(28)
Linda Darling-Hammond
On the Road to Democratic Economic Participation: Educating African American Youth in the Postindustrial Global Economy	225	(16)
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Part VI Humanizing Education: Diverse Voices	241	(40)
A Detroit Conversation	243	(18)
Joyce E. King
Sharon Parker
Faith and Courage to Educate Our Own: Reflections on Islamic Schools in the African American Community	261	(20)
Zakiyyah Muhammad
Part VII Globalizing the Struggle for Black Education: African and Diaspora Experiences	281	(28)
Worldwide Conspiracy Against Black Culture and Education	285	(6)
Ibrahima Seck
Black Educational Experiences in Britain: Reflections on the Global Educational Landscape	291	(6)
Cecile Wright
Black People and Brazilian Education	297	(4)
Terezinha Juraci Machado da Silva
A New Millennium Research Agenda in Black Education: Some Points to Be Considered for Discussion and Decisions	301	(8)
Petronilha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva
Part VIII ``Ore Ire''---Catalyzing Transformation in the Academy: Our Charge to Keep	309	(38)
Culturally Sensitive Research and Evaluation: Advancing an Agenda for Black Education	313	(10)
Linda C. Tillman
``Anayme Nti''---As Long As I Am Alive, I Will Never Eat Weeds: The Online Institute As a Catalyst for Research and Action in Black Education	323	(6)
Annette Henry
Incidents in the Lives of Harriet Jacobs's Children---A Readers Theatre: Disseminating the Outcomes of Research on the Black Experience in the Academy	329	(12)
Cirecie A. West-Olatunji
Answering a Call for Transformative Education in the New Millennium---``A Charge to Keep'': The CORIBE Documentary Video	341	(6)
Djanna Hill
Afterword	347	(4)
Postscript	351	(2)
Appendix A A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for Human Freedom in the New Century	353	(4)
Appendix B-1 Black Education, Toward the Human, After ``Man'': In the Manner of a Manifesto	357	(4)
Appendix B-2 Race and Our Biocentric Belief System: An Interview With Sylvia Wynter	361	(6)
Appendix C A Glossary of Terms	367	(4)
Contributing Authors	371	(6)
References	377	(44)
Author Index	421	(10)
Subject Index	431

Excerpts

"This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and offers new directions for research and practice. By commissioning an independent group of scholars of diverse perspectives and voices to investigate major issues hindering the education of Black people in the U.S., other Diaspora contexts, and Africa, the AERA sought to place issues of Black education and research practice in the forefront of the agenda of the scholarly community. An unprecedented critical challenge to orthodox thinking, this book makes an epistemological break with mainstream scholarship. Contributors present research on proven solutions-best practices-that prepare Black students and others to achieve at high levels of academic excellence and to be agents of their own socioeconomic and cultural transformation. These analyses and empirical findings also link the crisis in Black education to embedded ideological biases in research and the system of thought that often justifies the abject state of Black education." "Written for both a scholarly and a general audience, this book demonstrates a transformative role for research and a positive role for culture in learning, in the academy, and in community and crossnational contexts."--BOOK JACKET.