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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Africentric"”.
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Integrating Aesthetics: Transforming Continuing and Professional Education Through Africentric Practice
… successes.</p> <p>The research design was an Africentric qualitative single case study that focused on the experiences of six educators in African Centered schools. The Africentric Paradigm was utilized as the theoretical framework. Research questions that guided the study were as follows: 1) …
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An Africentric Reading Protocol: The Speculative Fiction Of Octavia Butler And Tananarive Due
<p>This examination of Africentric speculative fiction (ASF) applies an Africentric reading protocol to selected works of Octavia E. Butler and Tananarive Due. Butler's Parable Series and Due's African Immortals Series are examined using seven elements of Africentric narrative specific to cultural …
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The curse of Ham: An Africentric-postcolonial reading of Genesis 9:18-27 in the context of the coloured people of the Cape, South Africa
… slave. In unpacking the biblical text, an Africentric – postcolonial interpretation is used as a tool to analyse, reread, and reconstruct the text. This dissertation determines how this text has been used ideologically to justify oppression and marginalization of dark-skinned people. This …
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A WickEd Leadership Approach to Democratizing STEM Education
… groups. The ethics of liberation and Africentric values, specifically ubuntu (interconnectedness) and umoja (unity) guide the centering of diverse perspectives and the elevation of community-centric values throughout the organizational change implementation. This work also uses the …
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Righteous Commitment: Renewing, Repairing, and Restoring the World—Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement
This Africentric historical inquiry introduces Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and internationally renowned Kenyan activist, as a visionary adult educator and leader of the liberatory environmental movement -The Green Belt Movement. The Movement addresses decades of mis-education …
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Outside looking in: case studies of the effects of study abroad on female African American university students’ identities
… Specifically I utilise intersectionality and Africentric theory to understand how these women regard themselves in relation to their family structure, nationality, and religion. Black feminist thought is also employed to analyse the participants’ understanding of their gender with regards to …