New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.Arlo Kempf is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

• Foreword by Molefi Kete AsanteIntroductionChapter 1: African-Centred Education: Situation the TraditionChapter 2: The Search for Academic Excellence: Toward a New Policy FrameworkChapter 3: The Fight for African-Centred Schooling in TorontoChapter 4: Engaging Academic Critiques with Critical ResponsesChapter 5: Teacher Resistance to African-Centred Education: Public Discourse, Race, and National IdentityChapter 6: Re-Visioning Educational Opportunity: African-Centred EducationChapter 7: Moving Forward: The Track Record of African-Centred Education and the Push for New AlternativesAppendix A: Teacher's Introduction to African-Centred EducationReferences Index

This book is a well-researched and well-presented Africentric contribution to the critical discourse on quality of education. Indeed, it is a significant advance in the urgently needed reconsideration of how education is defined, delivered, assessed, and used from a unique and valuable perspective."" - Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach