Africana Critical Pedagogy: A Black Existential Journey

Africana Critical Pedagogy: A Black Existential Journey

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Main Author: Muhammed, Armiya Khaleel
Language:English
Published: Miami University / OhioLINK 2020
Subjects:
Black Studies
Pedagogy
African Americans
Education Philosophy
Antiblackness
Urban education
Black Existentialist
Africana Critical Pedagogy
Africana Critical theory
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1587746024509493
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami15877460245094932021-08-03T07:14:40Z Africana Critical Pedagogy: A Black Existential Journey Muhammed, Armiya Khaleel Black Studies Pedagogy African Americans Education Philosophy Antiblackness Urban education Black Existentialist Africana Critical Pedagogy Africana Critical theory Despite various adaptations to modern curriculum and pedagogical methods, Black student populations exist upon sites of violent convergence with a curriculum that produces a great deal of internal anguish. The actualization of feelings, centered around anguish, dread, and bad faith, lead us to the conclusion that the problem lies in public education's inability to construct/implement a substantial intervention to the process of alienation amongst Black students. Systems of education are designed to reproduce a composite of constructs that promote a monolithic lens. Metaphorically, this lens serves as an all-seeing eye through which all collective ways of being must pass. The eye differentiates the European norm from the classified other. The purpose of this study is to explore the process of how I as a Black educator teaching disenfranchised Black urban youth intervened in our shared sense of Black alienation by transforming the curriculum and pedagogy in my courses away from their Eurocentric foundations towards an Africana Critical Pedagogy. This was an autoethnographic study that sought to capture my evolution in this direction, my struggles to this end, and what I believe to be the lessons both my students and I learned in the process. The Africana Critical Pedagogy that emerges is aligned with the components of Africana Philosophy, which serves as a pillar in the foundation supporting a superstructure that encapsulates the very theoretical constructs designed to enhance the academic performance of black students, the curriculum, and corresponding pedagogy. I used several methods to collect data: exit tickets, dialogues, observations, and a praxis journal - a documentation of my reflective processes over ten years. Ultimately, critiquing historic and contemporary educational structures, I began to modify and improve my pedagogical methods to meet the constantly evolving needs of Black students in public education. 2020-04-24 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1587746024509493 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1587746024509493 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center.
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language English
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topic Black Studies
Pedagogy
African Americans
Education Philosophy
Antiblackness
Urban education
Black Existentialist
Africana Critical Pedagogy
Africana Critical theory
spellingShingle Black Studies
Pedagogy
African Americans
Education Philosophy
Antiblackness
Urban education
Black Existentialist
Africana Critical Pedagogy
Africana Critical theory
Muhammed, Armiya Khaleel
Africana Critical Pedagogy: A Black Existential Journey
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