Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles

Janice E. Hale-Benson

ISBN 10: 0801833833 / ISBN 13: 9780801833830

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

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• Titolo: Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801833833
• ISBN 13: 9780801833830
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

American educators have largely failed to recognize the crucial significance of culture in the education of African-American children, contents Janice E. Hale in the revised edition of her groundbreaking work, Black Children. As African-American children are acculturated at home and in the African-American community, they develop cognitive patterns and behaviors that may prove incompatable with the school environment. Cultural factors produce group differences that must be addressed in the educational process. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, sociology, history, and psychology, Hale explored the effects of African-American culture on a child's intellectual development and suggests curricular reforms that would allow African-American children to develop their interlligence, pursue their strengths, and succeed in school and at work.

Informazioni sull?autore

Janice E. Hale is professor of early childhood education at Wayne State University and the author of Unbank the Fire: Visions for the Education of African American Children, also available from Johns Hopkins. She is the founder of Visions for Children, a demonstration school designed to facilitate the intellectual development of African-American preschool children.