In Consciousness and With Responsibility: Marshaling African/Black Heritage Knowledges, Identities, and Practices for the Global Good

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This session seeks to highlight the importance of African/Black heritage knowledge (King, 2005) and productions in education for the public good, with two major goals. The first is to highlight a cohesive and collective epistemological, theoretical and cultural knowledge of global African/Black heritage scholarship.. The second goal for this session is to highlight the ways and means that several noted Black scholars have marshaled African/Black heritage knowledges, identities and cultural practices in specific educational efforts for the global public good, knowledges that are at once cosmopolitan (Appiah, 2006), “African” (in their variations and possibilities) and multiple “composed, not of one, but of many peoples [whose] origins are not singular, but diverse (Hall, 1999, p. 5).

Sub Unit

• Presidential Session

Chair

• Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

Participants

• George J. Dei, OISE/University of Toronto

• Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Cynthia A. Tyson, The Ohio State University - Columbus

• Handel K. Wright, The University of British Columbia