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Beyond Desegregation

Autor Mwalimu J. Shujaa
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 1996
This book presents a discussion among scholars about the need for, implications of and critical issues involved in looking beyond school desegregation to focus on the quality of African American schooling. The strategy of school desegregation is examined in the context of the power used by whites to control policy-making and implementation. The use of power by African Americans to resist schooling imposed by whites to maintain oppressive social relations is also discussed.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803962637
ISBN-10: 0803962630
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Cuprins

PART ONE: RETHINKING SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXTS
Introduction - Mwalimu J Shujaa
Reclaiming Historic Visions of Quality Schooling - William H Watkins
The Legacy of Early Twentieth Century Black Intellectuals
The <i>Brown</i> Decision Revisited - William F Tate, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Carl E Grant
Mathematicizing a Social Problem
PART TWO: POLITICS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Introduction - Mwalimu J Shujaa
Only One Oar in the Water - Judith L Failer, Anna Harvey, and Jennifer Hochschild
The Political Failure of School Desegregation in Yonkers, New York
Implementation of Court-Ordered Desegregation by District-Level School Administrators - Jennifer J Beaumont
Promoting Positive Peer Relations in Desegregated Schools - Janet W Schofield
PART THREE: SCHOOL DESEGREGATION'S IMPACT ON AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY LIFE AND LIFE IN SCHOOLS
Introduction - Mwalimu J Shujaa
Cultural Ignorance and School Desegregation - Van Dempsey and George Noblit
A Community Narrative
Before and after School Desegregation - Patricia A Edwards
African American Parents' Involvement in Schools
High Quality Schooling for African American Students - Ronald D Henderson et al
African American Student Leadership - Carolyn J Thompson
Implications for Quality in College Achievement in the Twenty-First Century
PART FOUR: QUALITY SCHOOLING FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS: VISIONS BEYOND DESEGRATION
Introduction - Mwalimu J Shujaa
Can Institutions Care? Segregated Schooling of African American Children as a Context for Reform - Emilie V Siddle Walker
Do We Need to Desegregate All of Our Black Schools? - Christine J Faltz and Donald O Leake
School Desegregation, the Politics of Culture, and the Council of Independent Black Institutions - Mwalimu J Shujaa and Hannibal T Afrik

Notă biografică

Mwalimu J. Shujaa is a professor and dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Southern University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds an EdD in anthropology of education from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Shujaa was the founding executive director of the African World Studies Institute at Fort Valley State University in Georgia and successfully led that institution's effort to launch a degree program in African World Studies. He held joint appointments in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy in the Graduate School of Education and in the Department of African American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His scholarly interests focus on the intersections between schooling, education, and culture; African-centered education; and educational policy. He is also a former editor of the journal Educational Policy. His books, Beyond Desegregation: The Politics of Quality in American Education(Corwin Press, 1996) and Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education: A Paradox of Black Life in White Societies (Africa World Press, 1994) are frequently cited in discussions related to African-centered education. His articles have appeared in notable peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Negro Education, Theory Into Practice, Journal of Education, Educational Policy, Urban Education, Educational Considerations, and Administrator's Notebook. Dr. Shujaa has collaborated with colleagues at the Federal University at São Carlos Brazil to study the reclaiming of African cultural identities among people of African ancestry living outside of Africa. He was the principal investigator for two Cross-Hemispheric Partnership projects targeting the teaching of Afro-Brazilian culture and history. Both projects were funded by the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Office and the United States Agency for International Development. He contributed to Molefi Kete Asante and Mambo Ama Mazama's Encyclopedia of Black Studies (Sage, 2007); Molefi Kete Asante and Mambo Ama Mazama's Encyclopedia of African Religion (Sage, 2009), and Kofi Lomotey's Encyclopedia of African American Education
(Sage, 2010).

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This book presents a discussion among scholars about the need for, implications of and critical issues involved in looking beyond school desegregation to focus on the quality of African American schooling. The strategy of school desegregation is examined in the context of the power used by whites to control policy-making and implementation. The use of power by African Americans to resist schooling imposed by whites to maintain oppressive social relations is also discussed.