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Africa in the Schools (AIS)

AIS is a curriculum transformation, research, and outreach initiative with five objectives: to create and to assess Africa-related curriculum and instructional materials; to conduct, support, and sponsor research on images, orientations, and information about Africa in schools; to link scholars, teachers, school administrators, and Africa-related experts in collaborative programs of scholarship and exchange with African counterparts; to combat stereotypical and monolithic views about Africa; and to cultivate a cadre of teachers, curriculum supervisors, and other instructional leaders who can integrate content-rich, culturally reflective, community-sensitive, and instructionally proven Africa-related materials into the classroom. One long-term objective is to establish a network of leaders and experts who can create high quality teaching materials and serve as resource persons for teachers and school districts.

Graduate students and visiting scholars map and assess Africa-related curricula

AIS News & Events index:

• (Mar, 2004) AIS Lecture Series March
• (Feb, 2004) AIS Lecture Series February
• (June, 2003) AIS Conference: "Africa in America: Intersections of Global and Local in the Classroom"

Leadership

Dr. Eileen Julien, a senior advisor to the ICTE, is Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora. A former Guggenheim fellow, founding director of the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal), and the author of literary studies including African Novels and the Question of Orality, "Terrains de rencontres: C?saire, Fanon and Wright on Culture and Decolonization" (Yale French Studies 90), and "The Extroverted African Novel" (Il romanzo, ed. F. Moretti), Dr. Julien has helped to fashion scholarly exchanges and research partnerships that link students and teachers, scholars and artists across disciplines, nations, and cultures.

Carol Anne Spreen, Assistant Professor of International Education, is ICTE co-director and EDPL faculty advisor to the Africa-in-the-Schools program (AIS). Her work centers on comparative school reform and international education policy and planning, with a focus on socio-cultural studies of classrooms and curriculum change, critical ethnographies of school communities, and examinations of transcultural leadership and intergroup practices in Africa, Latin America, and the United States. (Curriculum Vita)