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African-centered schooling in theory and practice

Author: Diane Pollard; Cheryl Ajirotutu
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Longitudinal studies
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African-centered schooling in theory and practice.
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000
(OCoLC)605528930
Online version:
African-centered schooling in theory and practice.
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000
(OCoLC)606374536
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Diane Pollard; Cheryl Ajirotutu
ISBN: 0897897285 9780897897280
OCLC Number: 42717588
Description: xii, 223 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Implementing African-centered schools in a public context. Historical, social, and cultural contexts of the African American immersion schools ; A portrait of the African American immersion elementary school ; A portrait of the African American immersion middle school ; Transformations ; Surface to deep transformations ; Lessons learned --
pt. 2. Issues in African-centered schooling. Talent development, cultural deep structure, and school reform: implications for African immersion initiatives / A. Wade Boykin ; "Island by island we must go across": challenges from language and culture among African Americans / Shirley Brice Heath ; Culturally relevant pedagogy in African-centered schools: possibilities for progressive educational reform / Gloria Ladson-Billings ; Afrocentric education: critical questions for further considerations / Jacqueling Jordan Irvine.
Responsibility: edited by Diane S. Pollard, Cheryl S. Ajirotutu ; foreword by Edgar Epps.

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