Heritage Knowledge in the Curriculum: Retrieving an African Episteme

by Joyce Elaine King and Ellen E. Swartz

Moving beyond the content integration approach of multicultural education, this text powerfully advocates for the importance of curriculum built upon authentic knowledge construction informed by the Black intellectual tradition and an African episteme. By retrieving, examining, and reconnecting the continuity of African Diasporan heritage with school knowledge, this volume aims to repair the rupture that has silenced this cultural memory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815380429
• ISBN13: 9780815380429
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"