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050 00 $aDT19.9.U5$bG74 1999
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245 00 $aGreat ideas for teaching about Africa /$cedited by Misty L. Bastian and Jane L. Parpart.
260 $aBoulder :$bLynne Rienner,$c1999.
263 $a9904
300 $ax, 243 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Teaching Africa in a New Millennium /$rMisty L. Bastian and Jane L. Parpart --$gPt. 1.$tThe Arts as Resources for Teaching.$g1.$tTeaching Culture and Politics with African Cinema /$rDickson Eyoh.$g2.$tTeaching African Religions Through Art and Literature /$rRosalind I. J. Hackett.$g3.$tAfrican "Traditional" Religions: A Multidisciplinary and Multimedia Approach /$rElizabeth Isichei.$g4.$tThe Medium Is the Message: Teaching Africa Through Music /$rAdeline Masquelier.$g5.$tTeaching Africa Through Literature /$rL. Natalie Sandomirsky --$gPt. 2.$tControversial Subjects and Current Issues.$g6.$tTeaching the African Slave Trade with Documents /$rCurtis A. Keim.$g7.$tTeaching Students About Ethnicity in Africa /$rBill Bravman.$g8.$tConfronting Stereotypes About HIV/AIDS and Africans /$rKearsley Stewart.$g9.$tContexts, Controversies, Dilemmas: Teaching Circumcision /$rCorinne A. Kratz.$g10.$tStudent Projects for Learning About Gender and Development /$rJane L. Parpart.
505 80 $g11.$tTeaching African Peacekeeping, Peacemaking, and Peacebuilding /$rSandra J. MacLean, Katherine Orr and Timothy M. Shaw --$gPt. 3.$tNew Technology in the Classroom.$g12.$tOn the Computer and in the Kitchen: Exercises for Teaching People-Environment Relations /$rTamara Giles-Vernick.$g13.$tUsing the World Wide Web to Teach About African Art /$rBenjamin C. Ray.$g14.$tUsing H-Africa in a Virtual Course /$rRobert G. White.$g15.$tNew Technologies (and Pretty Pictures) for Teaching African Physical Geographies /$rGarth Myers, Jack Livingston and Aimee Stewart [et al.] --$gPt. 4.$tBroader Approaches to Teaching about Africa.$g16.$tTeaching Africa Through Culture Areas and Literary Texts /$rRalph A. Austen.$g17.$tConcept Mapping and Country Adoption as Tools for Teaching About Africa /$rCyril Kofie Daddieh.$g18.$tAfrican Intellectuals and the Reconceptualization of Africa /$rPhilip S. Zachernuk.$g19.$t"The Country of Africa": Keeping the African Survey Course Lively and Interesting /$rMisty L. Bastian.
520 $aSome of the best college and university teachers in the field describe projects and assignments that have worked effectively for them in teaching African studies in a variety of disciplines.
520 8 $aThe authors present a wide range of approaches: from preparing African cuisines as a way to understand people-environment relations to using the Internet to develop a virtual art history exhibit; from viewing an African film or assigning a novel to broaden students' grasp of social context to challenging students to draft their own development projects in order to better appreciate village-level society and economy.
520 8 $aSix chapters are devoted to ways of handling such particularly sensitive subjects as ethnicity in Africa, the slave trade, AIDS, and female genital mutilation.
651 0 $aAfrica$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States.
700 1 $aBastian, Misty L.,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98097826
700 1 $aParpart, Jane L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82053329
852 00 $bglx$hDT19.9.U5$iG74 1999
852 00 $bafst$hDT19.9.U5$iG74 1999