African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum /

African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum / / ed. by Patricia Alden, Ahmed I. Samatar, David Lloyd.

This collection of critical debates--intended for teachers of African studies and others interested in incorporating non-Western perspectives in the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum--reflects the changing educational and sociocultural contexts of the last decade.

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MitwirkendeR:
Alden, Patricia,
Berry, Sara,
Brown, W. Howard,
Davis, Gregson,
Drayton, Arthur D.,
Greene, Sandra E.,
Hale, Thomas A,
Kapteijns, Lidwien,
Lazarus, Neil,
Lloyd, David,
Martin, William G.,
McCann, James C.,
McNaughton, Patrick,
Nyamweru, Celia,
Parson, Jack,
Pickle, Joseph W.,
Robinson, Paul W.,
Samatar, Ahmed I.,
Samoff, Joel,
Seidman, Ann,
Sobania, Neal W.,
Spear, Thomas,
Stoller, Paul,
Tremaine, Louis,
Walsh, Gretchen,
Wisner, Ben,
HerausgeberIn:
Alden, Patricia,
Lloyd, David,
Samatar, Ahmed I.,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1994
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: African Studies Within U.S. Liberal Arts Education
  • PART ONE INTERCULTURALISM AND AFRICAN STUDIES
  • 1 Between Cultures: Toward a Redefinition of Liberal Education
  • 2 Triumphalism, Tarzan, and Other Influences: Teaching About Africa in the 1990s
  • 3 Deposing Tarzan, or Teaching About Africa in the Post-Cold War Era: A Commentary on Joel Samoff
  • PART TWO REASSESSMENTS AND NEW DIRECTIONS
  • 4 Transnational Cultural Studies and the U.S. University
  • 5 I Think You Should Hear Voices When You Look at African Art
  • 6 Beyond Boundaries in the Humanities: A Response to Neil Lazarus
  • 7 New Directions: Teaching Economics to Undergraduates in African Studies
  • 8 Learning by Disagreeing: Comments on Ann Seidman
  • 9 From Periphery to Center: African History in the Undergraduate Curriculum
  • 10 Teaching African History in U.S. Colleges: A Discussion of Thomas Spear
  • 11 Teaching African Science: Notes on "Common Sense," "Tribal War/' and the "End of History"
  • 12 Science from Africa and Science About Africa: Comments on Ben Wisner
  • 13 Information Dynamics for African Studies: Resources in Libraries and Beyond
  • PART THREE PROGRAMS ABROAD
  • 14 Developing an Approach to Integrated Study in a Non-Western Context: The St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program
  • 15 Nowhere to Hide: Perspectives on an African Foreign-Study Program
  • 16 "The Walk Liberating": Africa Abroad as an Undergraduate Experience
  • 17 Inside or Outside the University? The Conundrum of U.S. Undergraduates in Africa
  • PART FOUR THE EVOLUTION OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN AFRICAN STUDIES
  • 18 Africa, Undergraduate Teaching, and Title VI African Studies Centers
  • 19 Accidents in African Studies: Africa in the Curriculum at the University of Richmond
  • 20 Underdevelopment and Self-Reliance in Building African Studies: Some Pedagogical, Policy, and Practical Political Issues at the College of Charleston
  • 21 Program Building: Some Principles and Lessons
  • 22 Tufanye Kazi Pamoja: The Association of African Studies Programs
  • PART FIVE CONCLUSION
  • 23 Concluding Remarks
  • The Contributors
  • About the Book

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