Teaching Africa a guide for the 21st-century classroom /

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Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9160563
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Other authors / contributors:Lundy, Brandon D., 1976-
Negash, Solomon, 1960-
ISBN:0253008298 (electronic bk.)
9780253008299 (electronic bk.)
9780253008152 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253008158 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253008213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253008212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other form:Original 9780253008152 0253008158 9780253008213 0253008212
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing 'Africa' / Jennifer E. Coffman
  • Africa: which way forward?: an interdisciplinary approach / Todd Cleveland
  • Why we need African history / Kathleen Smythe
  • Answering the 'so what' question: making African history relevant in the provincial college classroom / Gary Marquardt
  • From African history to African histories: teaching interdisciplinary method, philosophy, and ethics through the African history survey / Trevor R. Getz
  • Treating the exotic and the familiar in the African history classroom / Ryan Ronnenberg
  • Postcolonial perspectives on teaching African politics in Wales and Ireland / Carl Death
  • Pan-Africanism: the ties that bind Ghana and the United States / Harry Nii Koney Odamtten
  • The importance of the regional concept: the case for an undergraduate regional geography course of Sub-Saharan Africa / Matthew Waller
  • Teach me about Africa: facilitating and training educators toward a socially just curriculum / Durene I. Wheeler and Jeanine Ntihirageza
  • Inversion rituals: the African novel in the global North / Catherine Kroll
  • Teaching Africa through a comparative pedagogy: South Africa and the United States / Renée Schatteman
  • Stereotypes, myths, and realities regarding African music in the African and American academy / Jean Ngoya Kidula
  • What paltry learning in dumb books!: teaching the power of oral narrative / Caleb Corkery
  • Teaching about Africa: violence and conflict management / Linda M. Johnston and Oumar Chérif Diop
  • Contextualizing the teaching of Africa in the 21st century: a student-centered pedagogical approach to demystify Africa as the heart of darkness / Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson
  • Shaping U.S.-based activism towards Africa: the role of a mix of critical pedagogies / Amy C. Finnegan
  • The Model AU as pedagogical method of teaching American students about Africa / Babacar M'baye
  • The Kalamazoo/Fourah Bay College partnership: a context for understanding study abroad with Africa / Daniel J. Paracka, Jr
  • Teaching culture, health, and political economy in the field: ground-level perspectives on Africa in the 21st century / James Ellison
  • Beyond the biologic basis of disease: collaborative study of the social and economic causation of disease in Africa / Amy C. Finnegan, Julian Jane Atim, and Michael Westerhaus
  • Educating the educators: Ethiopian IT Ph.D. program / Solomon Negash and Julian M. Bass
  • Conclusion: knowledge circulation and diasporic interfacing / Toyin Falola.