Books by Joyce E. King

Black Education / Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity / Teaching Diverse Populations

 Black Mothers to Sons: Juxtaposing African American Literature with Social Practice.

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Black Education

A Transformative Research and Action Agenda

for the New Century

Edited by Joyce E. King

Reviews

Once we learn to teach poor Black children, we will likely learn better how to educate all children

--Carol D. Lee, from Chapter 3 "The State of Knowledge about the Education of African Americans"

This volume and the effort of the Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) . . . disrupts the discourse of Black inferiority and . . . suggests that the strengths tahta re already present and are ripe for development among Black peoples are gifts that humankind the world over so desperately needs . . . . By blurring the artificially constructed lines between research and practice CORIBE has produced a volume that speaks to multiple audiences in multiple ways. It provides a "grammar" of Black education unlike anything mainstream research has ever seen

--Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin/Madison, from the Foreword

This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and offers new directions for research and practice. By commissioning an independent group of scholars of diverse perspectives and voices to investigate major issues hindering the education of Black people in the U.S., other Diaspora contexts, and Africa, the AERA sought to place issues of Black education and research practice in the forefront of the agenda of the scholarly community. An unprecedented critical challenge to orthodox thinking, this book makes an epistemological break with mainstream scholarship. 

Contributors present research on proven solutions--best practices--that prepare Black students and others to achieve at high levels of academic excellence and to be agents of their own socioeconomic and cultural transformation. These analyses and empirical findings also link the crisis in Black education to embedded ideological biases in research and the system of thought that often justifies the abject state of Black education.

Written for both a scholarly and a general audience, this book demonstrates a transformative role for research and a positive role for culture in learning, in the academy, and in community and cross-national contexts.

Volume editor Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, learning, and leadership at Georgia State University and was chair of CORIBE.

--Publisher, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

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posted 9 November 2007

Dr. Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning, and Leadership in the College of Education at Georgia State University. 

The former Provost and Professor of Education at Spelman College, King is recognized here and abroad for her contributions to the field of education. In addition to Black Education, a publication which she edited, Dr. King has published three other books –Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity, Teaching Diverse Populations and Black Mothers to Sons: Juxtaposing African American Literature with Social Practice.

She has published many articles as well that address the role of cultural knowledge in effective teaching and teacher preparation, black teachers’ emancipatory pedagogy, research methods, black studies epistemology and curriculum change. King is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in social foundations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She also holds a certificate from the Harvard Institute in educational management.Click to purchase Black Education. There is also a video documentary