The Harriet Tubman Student and Teacher Programs at York U
4700 Keele St, 321 York Lanes, York University M3J 1P3 Toronto, ON, Canada

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ York U The Harriet Tubman Institute and the Black Canadian Studies Certificate present: "Writing and Researching Blackness in the Academy" , Feb 15 Event is free and open to the public

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ York U

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH Tubman Talks: "In Dubious Battle: Paradoxes in the Education of African Canadians", at talk by Kwesi Firempong is a PhD candidate in Education. Abstract:... A potential transformative turn in the education of Black learners, particularly in North America and England, has been instrumentalized in the establishment of Black-focused or Africentric schools. On the heels of this turn is the growing acceptance, ever so grudgingly of Africentric pedagogies now made more palatable by the less ominous sounding culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). Finally, in Canada, a convergence of the interests of an embarrassed educational establishment and activist segments of the Black populations of Nova Scotia and Ontario has been achieved. The high non-completion rates and the disproportional under achievement of Blacks within the schooling system had to be addressed by any means necessary, even segregation. Africentrists, in the process, have clawed their way to a tenuous foothold on the public purse. Bio Kwesi Firempong is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education. He earned his MAEd at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, where he explored the impact of the 1968 Black Panther Party visit to Halifax on African Nova Scotian activism for social justice and equality. His arts informed thesis on the event was concretized in a stage play to be produced this summer in Halifax.