Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education

“The search for new educational futurities for young learners today is growing in the intensity of scholarly debates. Engaging the African Diaspora in K–12 Education offers new critical perspectives on teaching and learning about the African diaspora. The book is a much-needed addition to this growing scholarship on Black and African education. It provides scholarly and practical insights from middle and high school teachers, researchers, and school administrators. The material covered is geographically broad, examining historical and contemporary issues of relevance to African diaspora communities in the Americas and Europe. A valuable resource for educators and school administrators, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on the African diaspora in the field of education. This book is highly recommended.”—George J. Sefa Dei, Professor of Social Justice Education & Director, Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies,Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
“When academic researchers and teachers collaborate, the knowledge produced and shared can be quite liberating. This innovative volume of interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy liberates us from obsolete, incomplete historical narratives, which, lacking an accurate African diaspora knowledge base, sustain misguided efforts to teach such vexingly complex topics as ‘slavery.’ The knowledge of African diasporic identities, histories and heritages in this volume not only changes the narrative about Africa’s peoples here and there in the world, it gifts us with an urgently needed global framework to integrate K–12 teaching within Africana/Black/diaspora studies. Bravo!”—Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership, Georgia State University; Past-president, The American Educational Research Association