On Objects and Voices: Material Culture and Oral History in the Case of Shule Ya Kujitambua

Family

African centered schools rely on a family model to drive education. They focus on this model because in public schools “the black nuclear and extended family as well as the Black community, are no longer galvanized around a common set of values, goals, and guiding principles as they once were.” By re-centering the family, African centered schools are able to draw the family and the community back in. referencing traditional forms of education. Teachers treat their students as their children, and encourage their students to treat their teachers as parents. By navigating the institution as a family, students and teachers are deeply embedded within the Shule. Pauline Lipman explains that “smaller, family like groupings” benefit students of color because they decrease anonymity and increase aims for shared goals as well as increase teacher-student empathy.”
 

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