Educating African Immigrant Youth: Schooling and Civic Engagement in K-12 Schools

The book explores the schooling and civic lives of Black African youth and communities in the US, Canada, and globally, highlighting the importance of developing and enacting teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students. It presents the Framework for Educating African Immigrant Youth, which focuses on four complementary approaches: emboldening tellings of diaspora narratives, navigating the complex past, present, and future of teaching and learning, enacting social civic literacies to extend complex identities, and affirming and extending cultural, heritage, and embodied knowledges, languages, and practices. The book includes chapters by Black African scholars, early-career, and senior scholars from various institutions, drawing on and extending a range of theoretical lenses grounded in African epistemologies and ontologies, as well as postcolonial and/or decolonizing approaches, culturally relevant and sustaining frameworks, language and literacy as a social practice, transnationalism, theater as social action, transformative and asset-based processes and practices, migration, and emotional capital. It also considers implications for teachers, teacher educators, and community educators.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2024
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

This book sheds light on the vibrant schooling and civic lives of Black African youth and communities in the United States, Canada, and globally, offering insights into developing and enacting teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students. The contributors explore the Framework for Educating African Immigrant Youth, which emphasizes four complementary approaches: emboldening tellings of diaspora narratives, navigating the complex past, present, and future of teaching and learning, enacting social civic literacies to extend complex identities, and affirming and extending cultural, heritage, and embodied knowledges, languages, and practices. The book covers a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including literacy and language, social studies, civics, mathematics, and higher education, as well as university and community partnerships, teacher education, global and comparative education, and after-school initiatives. It aims to honor and affirm the diverse, embodied, social-civic literacies and lived experiences of youth and communities, reframing harmful narratives of immigrant youth, families, and Africa. The book features chapter authors who are Black African scholars, early-career, and senior scholars from various institutions, including the United States and Canada. It draws on and extends a range of theoretical lenses grounded in African epistemologies and ontologies, as well as postcolonial and/or decolonizing approaches, culturally relevant.

Weight: 360g
Dimension: 229 x 156 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807769805