The culture of the kitchen: Recipes for transformative education within the African American cultural experience

✍ Scribed by Toby S. Jenkins

• Book ID: 101401244
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 256 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1086-4822
• DOI: 10.1002/abc.20056

✦ Synopsis

ThroughouT many eThnic com-muniTies, culture, place, and education have always been important to each other. There are countless creative strategies and approaches to education, inclusion, and personal development that can be derived from studying cultural spaces within any culture. in this article, i look specifically at the African American experience. African American history has been situated within many types of "spaces"-farms, fields, churches, classrooms, courtrooms, juke joints, and homes. both modest and grand, some have been places of pain. but many of these environments have been spaces of love and cultural inclusion. They have often served as the venues through which the African American community has culturally raised its youth. And they have also been the places where cultural education took place when schools were either segregated or noninclusive. in Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, bell hooks points out that continuing to push disengaged and underserved students to "do better," "try harder," and "succeed" in oppressive environments may actually do more harm than good.