Afrocentricity: Implications for Higher Education

Afrocentricity: Implications for Higher Education

Discusses some ideas about how Afrocentricity can be promoted and integrated in institutions of higher education in the United States. It argues that Afrocentricity offers an alternative to the more dominant Eurocentric view found in higher education and the world and states that the Eurocentric vie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of black studies 1994-12, Vol.25 (2), p.150-169
1. Verfasser: Schiele, Jerome H.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
African American culture
African American studies
African Americans
Afrocentrism
American philosophy
Black consciousness
Blacks
College Faculty
Comparative Analysis
Curricula
Educational Ideologies
Educational Innovation
Ethnocentrism
Eurocentrism
Foundations of Education
Hegemony
Higher Education
Intellect
Learning
Multiculturalism
Non Western Civilization
Philosophy
Postsecondary Education
Race relations
Social work
Student Role
Teacher Role
Teacher Student Relationship
Teachers
USA
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Zusammenfassung:Discusses some ideas about how Afrocentricity can be promoted and integrated in institutions of higher education in the United States. It argues that Afrocentricity offers an alternative to the more dominant Eurocentric view found in higher education and the world and states that the Eurocentric view subscribes to itself exclusive rights to knowledge. (GLR)
ISSN:0021-9347
1552-4566
DOI:10.1177/002193479402500202