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Informationen zum Autor Omari L. Dyson is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at South Carolina State University. While serving the SCSU community, Dr. Dyson has published and co-published various works that attend to power, post-colonialism, education, cultural studies, social transformation, action research, and educational assessment. Klappentext The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy: Place-Based Education in Philadelphia, by Omari L. Dyson,draws attention to the social dynamics that spawned a Philadelphia Branch of the Black Panther Party. Dyson offers an intricate, thorough, and penetrating examination of the Philadelphia Black Panthers, contextualizing their efforts within a search for transformative and uplifting approaches to teaching and learning. For anyone interested in understanding about just how powerful and politically attuned to place initiatives of the Black Panthers were, this text focused on a largely unstudied Philadelphia chapter is essential reading. Dyson brings together interviews, archival research, and Black curriculum perspectives to understand the roots of a social-educational movement. -- Erik L. Malewski, Kennesaw State University We can find the future through the past. Omari L. Dyson provides a passage, a powerful history of the Black Panthers that emphasizes the ongoing life-or-death crisis that was and-as Dyson makes compellingly clear-remains Black Philadelphia. Like the Black Panthers, Dyson demands decolonization, that exorcism-through education-of the ever-mutating evil racism represents. Impressively documented, this important book is required reading for all teachers, not only those in Philadelphia. -- William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia Zusammenfassung The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy: Place-Based Education in Philadelphia! by Omari L. Dyson! draws attention to the social dynamics that spawned a Philadelphia Branch of the Black Panther Party. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, by William H. WatkinsForewordChapter 1: Who's Buying Gold?: A Debt of a DreamChapter 2: Time Bakes the BredChapter 3: Panthers "Out of Pocket" Chapter 4: Providing Community ReliefChapter 5: Panthers in a State of Siege Chapter 6: A Telling Legacy Chapter 7: The Cost of Truly Educating Chapter 8: A Brief Conversation with Omari L. DysonTablesEndnotesBibliographyAbout the Author...
