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Educating our Black children [electronic resource] : new directions and radical approaches / edited by Richard Majors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2001.Description: ix, 271 pISBN:
  • 9780203995648
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: List of figures xi -- List of tables xii -- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgements xiv -- Introduction 1 --PART I : Tackling historical and contemporary education problems 11 -- 1 Racism, policy and the (mis)education of black children 13 -- DAVID GILLBORN -- 2 The education of Black children: why do some schools do better than others? 28 -- MAUDE BLAIR -- 3 Academic disidentification: unravelling under achievement among Black boys 45 -- JASON W. OSBORNE --PART II : Radical Black approaches to education 59 -- 4 The 'miseducation' of Black children in the British educational system - towards an African-centred -- orientation to knowledge 61 -- MEKADA GRAHAM -- 5 Lessons from America: the African American Immersion Schools experiment 79 -- DIANE S. POLLARD AND CHERYL S. AJIROTUTU -- 6 Black supplementary schools: spaces of radical blackness 90 -- DIANE REAY AND HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA --PART III : Reflections on social exclusion and inclusion 103 -- 7 The exclusion of Black children: implications for a racialised perspective 105 -- RICHARD MAJORS, DAVID GILLBORN AND TONY SEWELL -- 8 Educational psychologists and Black exclusion: towards a framework for effective intervention 110 -- KARL BROOKS AND DENNY GRANT -- 9 Black exclusions in a moral vacuum 128 -- RICHARD HARRIS AND CARL PARSONS --PART IV : Rites of passage, manhood training and masculinity perspectives 139 -- 10 Enhancing achievement in adolescent Black males: the Rites of Passage link 141 -- KEITH ALFORD, PATRICK MCKENRY AND STEPHEN GAVAZZI -- 11 An after-school manhood development program 157 -- AMINIFU R. HARVEY -- 12 Black boys at school: negotiating masculinities and race 169 -- JAMES EARL DAVIS -- 13 Black boys and schooling: an intervention framework for understanding the dilemmas of masculinity, identity and underachievement 183 -- TONY SEWELL AND RICHARD MAJORS -- PART V : Mentoring and education 203 -- 14 Mentoring Black males: responding to the crisis in education and social alienation 205 -- RICHARD MAJORS, VINCENT WILKINSON AND WILLIAM GULAM -- 15 School based mentoring for minority youth: program components and evaluation strategies 214 -- TERESA GARATE-SERAFINI, FABRICIO E. BALCAZAR, CHRISTOPHER B. KEYS AND JULIE WEITLAUF --List of contributors 258 -- Index 264.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: List of figures xi -- List of tables xii -- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgements xiv -- Introduction 1 --PART I : Tackling historical and contemporary education problems 11 -- 1 Racism, policy and the (mis)education of black children 13 -- DAVID GILLBORN -- 2 The education of Black children: why do some schools do better than others? 28 -- MAUDE BLAIR -- 3 Academic disidentification: unravelling under achievement among Black boys 45 -- JASON W. OSBORNE --PART II : Radical Black approaches to education 59 -- 4 The 'miseducation' of Black children in the British educational system - towards an African-centred -- orientation to knowledge 61 -- MEKADA GRAHAM -- 5 Lessons from America: the African American Immersion Schools experiment 79 -- DIANE S. POLLARD AND CHERYL S. AJIROTUTU -- 6 Black supplementary schools: spaces of radical blackness 90 -- DIANE REAY AND HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA --PART III : Reflections on social exclusion and inclusion 103 -- 7 The exclusion of Black children: implications for a racialised perspective 105 -- RICHARD MAJORS, DAVID GILLBORN AND TONY SEWELL -- 8 Educational psychologists and Black exclusion: towards a framework for effective intervention 110 -- KARL BROOKS AND DENNY GRANT -- 9 Black exclusions in a moral vacuum 128 -- RICHARD HARRIS AND CARL PARSONS --PART IV : Rites of passage, manhood training and masculinity perspectives 139 -- 10 Enhancing achievement in adolescent Black males: the Rites of Passage link 141 -- KEITH ALFORD, PATRICK MCKENRY AND STEPHEN GAVAZZI -- 11 An after-school manhood development program 157 -- AMINIFU R. HARVEY -- 12 Black boys at school: negotiating masculinities and race 169 -- JAMES EARL DAVIS -- 13 Black boys and schooling: an intervention framework for understanding the dilemmas of masculinity, identity and underachievement 183 -- TONY SEWELL AND RICHARD MAJORS -- PART V : Mentoring and education 203 -- 14 Mentoring Black males: responding to the crisis in education and social alienation 205 -- RICHARD MAJORS, VINCENT WILKINSON AND WILLIAM GULAM -- 15 School based mentoring for minority youth: program components and evaluation strategies 214 -- TERESA GARATE-SERAFINI, FABRICIO E. BALCAZAR, CHRISTOPHER B. KEYS AND JULIE WEITLAUF --List of contributors 258 -- Index 264.

Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)

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