Dr. Molefi Kete Asante
Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children
Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children is a passionate appeal to teachers to take what George Dei calls a “transgressive” position toward education’s status quo, a status quo often expressed as a commitment to excellence of all students. This book offers tools for those who want to reverse the brain freeze that often accompanies this seemingly innocuous goal, assisting both the students and the teachers laboring in urban situations.
- Readers will learn how and what to use to:
- Create revolutionary pedagogy
- Provide students the opportunity to study the world, its people, concepts, and history from the point of view of the African child’s heritage
- Identify the three critical challenges to white supremacist teachings
- Correct distorted information
- Recognize dysconscious racism
- Re-center dislocated African American students and expand the knowledge of all other students in the classroom
Revolutionary Pedagogy gives teachers the best tools possible to unlock the potential in (all) children sitting in their classroom.
About the Author
Molefi Kete Asante is Professor, Department of Africology at Temple University in Philadelphia, President of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies, and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. He was the Founding Editor, Journal of Black Studies, serving for 53 years. Asante, often called the most prolific African American scholar, has published over 100 books, among the most recent are The Perilous Center, or When Will the African Center Hold; Radical Insurgencies; The History of Africa, 3rd Edition; An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision; The African American People: A Global History; Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation; Revolutionary Pedagogy; African American History: A Journey of Liberation; African Pyramids of Knowledge; Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait; Facing South to Africa, and, the memoir, As I Run Toward Africa.
Asante has published more than 500 articles and is considered one of the most quoted living African authors as well as one of the most distinguished thinkers in the African world.
