Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education

Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education supplants the historical notion of higher education as an individual endeavor with pioneering perspectives that outline interventions that enhance the education of people of African descent in areas of student services, teacher preparation, career preparation, and the role of Africana Studies in HBCUs.

List of contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Kasserian Ingera: Achieving Black Male Collegiate Success through Afrostructual
Interventions by Dr. Vida A. Robertson
Chapter 2: An Afrocentric and Nation of Islam Approach to Teacher Preparation at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities by Abul Pitre, Tanya Hudson, and Jocelyn Smith-Gray
Chapter 3: African American Studies and African American History: Pedagogical Approaches to
Introductory Courses in Black Studies by Charmane M. Perry
Chapter 4: Epistemological Reparations: An Afrocentric Approach Within Black Studies
by Ifetayo M. Flannery
Chapter 5: A Value-Added Module for Introduction to Africana Studies: Speaking in the
Disciplines and Africana Market Value by Christel N. Temple
Chapter 6: Africana Studies, Urban/Afrocentric Education and Afrocentricity: An Innovativeness
of Axiology by James L. Conyers Jr.
Chapter 7: Making Gumbo: Africana Studies and HBCUs at the Crossroads byDonela Wright
About the Contributors
Index

About the author

Edited by Vida A. Robertson; Jocelyn Smith-Gray Ed.D and Abul Pitre

Product details

• Authors: Vida a Smith-Gray Robertson, Vida A. Smith-Gray Robertson
• Assisted by: Abul Pitre (Editor), Pitre Abul (Editor), Vida A Robertson (Editor), Vida A. Robertson (Editor), Jocelyn Smith-Gray (Editor), Jocelyn Ed. D Smith-Gray (Editor), Jocelyn Smith-Gray Ed.D (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2023
• EAN: 9780761874225
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7422-5
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher