June 12-23, 2006
This Institute provides teachers and graduate students at KU with a unique perspective on Africa and Africans in the Diaspora. The main objective of the two-week institute is to learn about the African Diaspora in order to teach vitally related topics. It is designed to address issues and challenges encountered in learning and teaching about the African Diaspora. Using a multi-faceted teaching approach, including presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, video illustrations, and hands on library research, Africanist faculty at KU will provide the knowledge to better understand the African Diaspora and its realities. Specific topics of study will include teaching resources and methodology, African diasporic issues (media stereotypes, migration, religions, arts, human/civil rights, politics, culture, music/dance, and literature). A visit to see the Kansas City Museum of Jazz and the Negro League Baseball Hall of Fame is planned as well as featuring teaching resources available at the Kansas City museums and KU’s Museum of Anthropology. The Institute’s closing day will include an elaborate ceremony featuring culture, music, dance, and foods of Africans in the Diaspora.
This Institute is recommended for teachers, educators, or graduate students who teach and learn about Africa in their classrooms, or who seek quality information and thought-provoking discussion about different aspects of African culture and society. The daily format includes an array of learning sessions-talks and panel discussions by KU African area specialists, library research time, a field trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Participants will create lesson plans for their own classrooms, and will have opportunities to meet with faculty consultants for content and resource suggestions. The last day of the Institute, each participant will share their units and brainstorm more ideas together.
Professor Ronald Bailey, a well-known scholar from Northeastern University in Boston, will be participating in this program. Professor Bailey is well-known for his Nubian studies that can be seen at www.nubianet.org and this www.dignubia.org. In addition, to the proceedings from the International Conference on Nubia Studies that he cohosted which will be found at http://www.afrostudies.neu.edu/nubia.html, his Institute presentations will overview several projects such as the Nubia work and his current book project on cotton, the slave(ry) trade, and world history to illustrate the general paradigm he has developed.
The $40 materials fee covers the educational program with KU faculty specialists in several disciplines, an informational packet with classroom resources, library privileges and refreshments.
Graduate credit will be available to those who wish to enroll and pay for tuition and fees. In-service credit has been applied for in the Lawrence and Topeka School districts . If you would like help obtaining in-service credit in your district, please let us know.
Materials fee refunds may be requested in writing before June 1; otherwise no refunds will be given after that date.
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