Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles - Softcover

Hale, Janice E. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801833833 ISBN 13: 9780801833830

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Janice E. Hale is professor of early childhood education at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is the founder of Visions for Children, a demonstration school designed to facilitate the intellectual development of African American preschool children. Her books include Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles, Unbank the Fire: Visions for the Education of African American Children, and Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801833833
• ISBN 13: 9780801833830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240