PASCEP0227 - The Black Child Development and Socialization

Course Description

This course will define what culture is.  This course highlights the importance of culture to the development or underdevelopment of the Black girl and boy. This is an Africology course so the Black child will be considered a child of African descent because s/he is connected to the cultural history of her/his Ancestors' journey from Africa to the US.  The US "education" of the child and her/his understanding of self is shaped, in the main, by the dominant cultural ideas taught in school. Curriculum development in the main is grounded in anti-African, anti-Black beliefs in the inferiority of girls and boys.

 Under these conditions, an important question is, who is the African child being developed and socialized to become? We shall investigate this question with readings and talks by educators that have worked to challenge these ideas.

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