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Towards a Common Center: Locating Common Characteristics of African Centeredness in an Independent African Centered Learning Environment

As a culturally relevant alternative to traditional public school environments, Independent African Centered schools feature a particular type of culturally relevant pedagogy. This study explored the teachers’ and administrator’s perceptions and applications of African Centered pedagogy in an African Centered school. Interviews, observations and a document review served as the source of data for this study. This basic interpretive study utilized a qualitative research design to explore the perceptions and application of African Centeredness among the participants.
An analysis of the data revealed categories and themes related to the school’s mission and the participants’ perceptions and performance of African-centered pedagogy. Three general conclusions were drawn from the findings. Implications for theory, study limitations and recommendations for future research are provided.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:aas_theses-1014
Date02 May 2012
CreatorsBright, Garfield R, Jr
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceAfrican-American Studies Theses

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