African Traditional and Oral Literature as Pedagocal Tools in Content Area Classrooms, K-12 14+

📖 For a long time, many American educators and educational stakeholders havedrawn their ideas for educational reforms from ideas generated in Europe andAsia for the changing demographics of America's diverse classrooms. Thisbook is therefore motivated by a bold attempt at advocating for the revision ofexisting pedagogic fora and the creation and addition of new fora that wouldprovide for the inclusion of thoughts, perspectives and practices of Africantraditional oral literature in the pedagogical tools of content area classroomsespecially in North America. The articles that are presented in this book provide theoretical frameworks for usingAfrican traditional oral literature and its various tenets as teaching tools. They bring together new voices of howAfrican literature could be used as helpful tool in classrooms. Rationale for agitating for its use as ideal forpedagogic tool is the recurrent theme throughout the various articles presented.The book explores how educators, literacy educators, learners, activists, policy makers, and curriculumdevelopers can utilize the powerful, yet untapped gem of African oral literature as pedagogical tools in contentarea classrooms to help expand educators repertoire of understandingbeyond the 'conventional wisdom' of their pedagogic creed. It is acomprehensive work of experienced and diverse scholars, academicians, andeducators who have expertise in multicultural education, traditional oralliterature, urban education, children...