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

This 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 features disciplinary perspectives from literacy and language, social studies, civics, mathematics, and higher education, and includes contributions from Black African scholars, early-career, and senior scholars from various institutions. It aims to honor and affirm the range of youth and communitys diverse, embodied, social-civic literacies and lived experiences as part of their educational journey, reframing harmful narratives of immigrant youth, families, and Africa.

Format: Hardback
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, presenting key research on developing and enacting teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students. The contributors examine the Framework for Educating African Immigrant Youth, which focuses on four complementary approaches for teaching and learning: 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 frameworks and practices will strengthen how educators address the interplay of identities presented by African and, by extension, Black immigrant populations. Disciplinary perspectives include literacy and language, social studies, civics, mathematics, and higher education; university and community partnerships; teacher education; global and comparative education; and after-school initiatives.

The book features a focus on honoring and affirming the range of youth and communitys diverse, embodied, social-civic literacies and lived experiences as part of their educational journey, reframing harmful narratives of immigrant youth, families, and Africa. Chapter authors include Black African scholars, early-career, and senior scholars from a range of institutions, including in the United States and Canada. Chapters draw on and extend a range of theoretical lenses grounded in African epistemologies and ontologies, as well as postcolonial and/or decolonizing approaches, culturally relevant.

The book illuminates emerging perspectives and possibilities of the vibrant schooling and civic lives of Black African youth and communities in the United States, Canada, and globally. Chapters present key research on how to develop and enact teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students. The contributors examine the Framework for Educating African Immigrant Youth, which focuses on four complementary approaches for teaching and learning: 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 frameworks and practices will strengthen how educators address the interplay of identities presented by African and, by extension, Black immigrant populations. Disciplinary perspectives include literacy and language, social studies, civics, mathematics, and higher education; university and community partnerships; teacher education; global and comparative education; and after-school initiatives.

Dimension: 235 x 162 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807769812