Afrocentric Curriculum - ASCD

^ =` MOLEFI KETE ASANTEBy " centering" their students of color, teachers can reduce feelings of dislocation engendered by our soci ety's predominantly "white self-esteem curriculums."Recently I spoke about Afrocen tric teaching at a gathering of thousands of teachers in a large urban district. After my speech, I was pleased that two teachers wanted to share their classroom experiences with the a trip to Africa, one teacher said, he returned to his classroom of mostly African-American students and began identifying them with various ethnic groups, "You look like a Fulani boy I saw in Northern Nigeria," he commented to a young man. "You're definitely Ibo," he said to a female student. "Yes, I have seen that face in the Ibo region." Turning to another student, he said, "I see Mandinka features in your face." Soon, all the children were clamoring for identifica tion: "Me, who do I look like?" "Tell me my ethnic group," each one asked the other teacher remarked that she asks her students to write about their family's genealogy.

Afrocentric Curriculum MOLEFI KETE ASANTE By "centering" their students of color, teachers can reduce feelings of dislocation engendered by our soci

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