Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century [Paperback]

Joyce E. King (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0805854584 | ISBN-13: 978-0805854589 | Publication Date: June 2005

This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and offers new directions for research and practice. By commissioning an independent group of scholars of diverse perspectives and voices to investigate major issues hindering the education of Black people in the U.S., other Diaspora contexts, and Africa, the AERA sought to place issues of Black education and research practice in the forefront of the agenda of the scholarly community. An unprecedented critical challenge to orthodox thinking, this book makes an epistemological break with mainstream scholarship. Contributors present research on proven solutions--best practices--that prepare Black students and others to achieve at high levels of academic excellence and to be agents of their own socioeconomic and cultural transformation. These analyses and empirical findings also link the crisis in Black education to embedded ideological biases in research and the system of thought that often justifies the abject state of Black education. Written for both a scholarly and a general audience, this book demonstrates a transformative role for research and a positive role for culture in learning, in the academy, and in community and cross-national contexts. Volume editor Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University and was chair of CORIBE.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The book Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century, edited by Joyce E. King, is an educational blueprint for giving the world its third and greatest humanity. All educators, from those who work with the youngest of learners to those who work with graduate students, will find Black Education to be a critical examination of the state of global Black education and what needs to be done by educators and countries to remedy situations that create Black educational underachievement....provides a framework for those of us who seek to continue the onward march of human civilization, liberation, and transformation and provide a golden path for the continuation of our species.
—PsycCRITIQUES

This provocative body of work is the result of intensive research investigations that were launched by the Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE)....It is a thought-provoking page-turner and a noteworthy read forgeneral audiences who are intrigued with the topic of education reform and issues germane to traditionally underrepresented populations.
—Multicultural Review

Once we learn to teach poor Black children, we will likely learn better how to educate all children.
—Carol D. Lee
From Chapter 3, The State of Knowledge About the Education of African Americans

This volume and the effort of CORIBE...disrupts the discourse of Black inferiority and...suggests that the strengths that are already present and are ripe for development among Black peoples are gifts that humankind the world over so desperately needs....By blurring the artificially constructed lines between research and practice CORIBE has produced a volume that speaks to multiple audiences in multiple ways. It provides a 'grammar' of Black education unlike anything mainstream educational research has ever seen.
—Gloria Ladson-Billings
From the Foreword

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805854584
• ISBN-13: 978-0805854589
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,190,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)