The Healing Power of Education: Afrocentric Pedagogy as a Tool for Restoration and Liberation

by Marcia J Watson-VanDiver and Greg Wiggan

Situating the African American learning experience within the stream of historic enslavement and hundreds of years of institutionalized racism, this timely book introduces antiracist foundations for teaching in the 21st century. The authors take a holistic approach that uses Afrocentricity to identify and address critical omissions and distortions in school curricula. Drawing on empirical findings from a high-performing 100% African American school,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807765376
• ISBN13: 9780807765371
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 240 Pages