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African Traditional and Oral Literature as Pedagogical Tools in Content Area Classrooms - K-12 (Hardcover, New)
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African Traditional and Oral Literature as Pedagogical Tools in Content Area Classrooms - K-12 (Hardcover, New)
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For a long time, many American educators and educational
stakeholders have drawn their ideas for educational reforms from
ideas generated in Europe and Asia for the changing demographics of
America's diverse classrooms. This book is therefore motivated by a
bold attempt at advocating for the revision of existing pedagogic
fora and the creation and addition of new fora that would provide
for the inclusion of thoughts, perspectives and practices of
African traditional oral literature in the pedagogical tools of
content area classrooms especially in North America. The articles
that are presented in this book provide theoretical frameworks for
using African traditional oral literature and its various tenets as
teaching tools. They bring together new voices of how African
literature could be used as helpful tool in classrooms. Rationale
for agitating for its use as ideal for pedagogic tool is the
recurrent theme throughout the various articles presented. The book
explores how educators, literacy educators, learners, activists,
policy makers, and curriculum developers can utilize the powerful,
yet untapped gem of African oral literature as pedagogical tools in
content area classrooms to help expand educators repertoire of
understanding beyond the 'conventional wisdom' of their pedagogic
creed. It is a comprehensive work of experienced and diverse
scholars, academicians, and educators who have expertise in
multicultural education, traditional oral literature, urban
education, children's literature and culturally responsive pedagogy
that have become the focus of U.S. discourses in public education
and teacher preparation. This anthology serves as part of the quest
for multiple views about our 'global village', emphasizing the
importance of linking the idea of diverse knowledge with realities
of global trends and development. Consequently, the goal and the
basic thrust of this anthology is to negotiate for space for
non-mainstream epistemology to share the pedagogical floor with the
mainstream template, to foster alternative vision of reality for
other knowledge production in the academic domain. The uniqueness
of this collection is the idea of bringing the content and the
pedagogy of most of the genres of African oral arts under one
umbrella and thereby offering a practical acquaintance and
appreciation with different African cultures. It therefore
introduces the world of African mind and thoughts to the readers.
In summary, this anthology presents an academic area which is now
gaining its long overdue recognition in the academia.
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