{"product_id":"educating-african-immigrant-youth-schooling-and-civic-engagement-in-k12-schools-9780807769812","title":"Educating African Immigrant Youth: Schooling and Civic Engagement in K-12 Schools","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 30 June 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Teachers' College Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. 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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. 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