RBG Afrikan- Centered Cultural Development and Education
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly... [more]
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
Welcome to one of the baddest EduTainment Resources on the Web. A one-stop-shop for education,consciousness raising, entertainment and liberation. And the nicest thing about it is that you can become a contributor. Just start out by reading this overview and learning how things work. You can play a video right within this start page and even browse to it's music. Or turn on an audio playlist to facilitate your browsing. Tons of other options, too numerous to mention here are also right at you finger tips. Ride it however you like, it's all good. Once you get going, check out a Multi-Media Article that interests you and make a comment. I, RBG Street Scholar-Your Zine author, editor and guru will respond. The aforementioned approach is a kol gateway to doing bigger and better things in and with the Communiversity.
WHAT IS RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK AT ZIMBIO ALL ABOUT?
It's about creating and maintaining the best "Afri-Conscious Cyber EduTainment Portal / Communiversity on the Web".
It's about saving time doing study, learning / teaching together and having madd fun doing it.
The merticulously researched choice of links can be thought of as our votes in the popularity contest that is the "Best of the Best in Black Internet" . The intention is to provide a diverse and concise starting point for you to begin your quest for whatever information you are looking for from a progressive/radical/revolutionary Black perspective . As most of these sites have vast links sections of their own, so do the sites they link to, and so on, and so forth—starting from these links, you can delve further into whatever area interests you.
You got a myspace, youtube, odeo, website etc.
Add your Stuff Folx--and let's learn from each other, build together and teach the world
Our Zines are intended to help us develop and maintain a resource for scholarly research, build together and learn about any subject / topic related to what we're already about: Namely, the "Africentric Idea of Education" let's take the learner from G.E.D. to Ph.D in the contemporary liberal arts and sciences;
Including:
> computers & information technology,
> history and cultural development,
> religion and spirituality,
> sociology,
> political science,
> creative productions/ entertainment,
> education,
> health promotion and disease prevention
> economics and
> psychology
A one stop shop using all forms of media to interactively showcase our ideas of relavent education, unification, collectivity and self definition.
They say " Black Folx Can't Unite, I say they're a lie" Let's show the world our truth and culture; all under the umbrella of Black Nationalism> PanAfrikanism> Scientific Socialism> Revolutionary Change>Afrikan Internationalism.
Browse existing content in any of our four Zines and you will discover that they are all concentricly integrated, thus providing you with a most rich and wholesome interactive learning experience.
Help RBG Street Scholar, your Resident Guru, build our school with your good works.
Rate each others work as to keep us on point.
I'VE STARTED US OUT WITH SOME SOLID CONTENT. NOW WE MUST CONTINUE BY BUILDING TOGETHER. A GOOD WAY TO START IS BY FIRST SIGNING UP AND THEN BROWSING EACH FIELD IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS PANE TO THE LEFT AS TO GET QUICKLY ORIENTED. A LINK BELOW TO "RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK RULES OF ENGAGEMENT" WILL TAKE YOU DEEPER STILL.
THE FOLLOWING IS A GUIDING SYNOSIS TAKEN FROM THE COMMUNIVERSITY PROPER:
With strick attention to developing our student’s basic education skills in the context of the highest standards of academic excellence, suitable for one to confidently sit for high stake exams(ie. SAT/ACT and MCATs, LSATs), we simutaneously advance the psycho-emotional healing and spiritual upliftment of our people by providing KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND OVERSTANDING of the historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational experiences of Africans in America in away that RADICALLY REAPPRAISES EDUCATION from the pained and angry perspective of the oppressed black community.
WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS:
With the present day high rates of Black on Black homicide, suicide, and imprisonment and a rise in single-parent homes, rampant police brutality, unprecedented unemployment, and Blacks use of popular (ENEMY) culture (through music, video games and popular movies) to celebrate "anti-intellectualism, ignorance, irresponsible parenthood, drunkenness, dope dealing, weed smoking, cocaine, x-pills, loose sexual behavior and criminal lifestyles / thuggism"; we have chose to design a curriculum that, rather than getting caught up in the entertainment / BLACKPLOTATION aspects of hip hop/rap, will use hip hop/rap within a historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational framework to address these various death walks forthrightly. Our new methodological style is intended to get our young people to begin to think critically about themselves, their world and their role as people of Afrikan descent.
WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE WANNA GO:
This work is a comprehensive (but only a core framework) sequenced survey of subjects and topics that have confronted Afrikans in America throughout our 246 years of chattel slavery, 100 years of aparthied and only “one generation of freedom” here in America. I like to describe the school as a “cultural development and leadership training communiversity”. From our research, we have determined that the idea of Sankofa, which means "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today", really encompasses the whole Afrikan-centered ideal. Nonetheless, as this is a work in evolution and always under construction, we have chosen to focus our teaching/learning journey most directly on the past 45 years of our struggle for human and civil rights—
THE THEME “THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THINGS STAY THE SAME, WE NEED A REVOLUTION, THE SYSTEM AIN’T GONA CHANGE UNLESS WE MAKE IT CHANGE”.
The content and character of the curriculum is Afrikan-centered and the goal is academic excellence in persuit of black power. We tease out the social, political, economic and moral imparatives of black power in the 21st century by zooming in on two povital questions throughout our course of study:
“WHAT IS BLACK OPPRESSION IN AMERICA AND WHAT IS AFRIKAN LIBERATION.”
RBG Blakademics ACTI- Afrikan Centered Thematic Inventory / Curriculum National Standards
“A PRESENTATION OF THE STUDY DOMAINS OUR VARIOUS CURRICULA EXECUTE IN A WEB 2.0 ENVIRONMENT”
In NATIONBUILDING, Agyei Akoto has produced a volume that challenges all Afrikan people, particularly those of us in the United States, to confront with seriousness the responsibilities of educating for liberation, and the reality that the goal of liberation must be Nationhood. This book is a masterpiece of vision. More importantly, by writing candidly about the experience produced by 20 years of sustained kazi (work) within a collective of creative thinkers and doers, the author helps readers understand how the wisdom he reveals in NATIONBUILDING was developed. One appreciates, through Agyei's writing that nationbuilding is the process that gives us form and substance within humanity; it is through this process that we create and recreate the culture that defines our lives. RBG Street Scholars Think Tank in its content, methods and global level of participation is proving to be one of the most cutting edge digital academic demostrations online that has implemented Dr. Akoto’s Nationhood- Afrikan Centered Curriculum Standards, with a from GED to Phd focus.
See:
Akoto, Kwame Agyei. Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered.
Education. Washington, D.C.: Pan African World Institute, 1992. Asante, Molefi.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/lecture/levy.pdf
Curricular Domains and Aims
I.Spirituality and the Psycho-Affective Domain
SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
Aim: To transmit the knowledge of Afrikan spiritual tradition, and develop an appreciation for tradition and the ability to apply the major principles to self, family and community
MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Aim: To foster an understanding and willingness to be guided by those principles that characterize the righteous and just person
FAMILY AS BASIC SPIRITUAL AND MORAL UNIT
Aim: To develop ail understanding and appreciation for the dynamics affecting the Afrikan family; to recognize its centrality to . the Afrikan nationality, and work to revitalize it
SELF-KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE
Aim: To facilitate the achievement of total knowledge of self as a unique extension ofthe collective, defined by the collective and committed to it
ANCESTRAL VENERATION
Aim: To facilitate the acquisition and valuing of the wisdom of the ancestors; and to foster a commitment to restore their works and make those works even better than before
II. Cultural and Ideological Domain
THE PRIMACY OF AFRIKAN CIVILIZATION AND THE AFRIKAN ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN SPECIES
Aim: To develop and inform a complete and more comprehensive historical consciousness, from antiquity to the contemporary, that will be the basis for Afrikan unity and development
AFRIKAN HERITAGE AND CULTURAL UNITY
Aim: To develop an appreciation of the need to foster cultural, and political unity among all Afrikan people, and to commit oneself to that task
AFRIKAN CENTERED HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
(Afrikan Perspective on all Knowledge and Intellectual Endeavor)
Aim: To develop a commitment to reconstruct Afrikan culture through the reclamation of Afrikan history and the criti¬cal/creative analysis of all knowledge and experience from an Afrikan centered perspective
IDEOLOGICAL CLARITY (CONSCIOUSNESS), COMMITMENT AND CONDUCT
Aim: To foster an identification with and a desire to participate in
the ongoing dialogue aimed at creating a coherent and dynamic Afrikan/nationalist ideology for the liberation and independ¬ence of Afrikan people
BEAUTY AND AESTHETICS
Aim: To foster the development of a sense of the. beautiful and righteousness that is Afrikan centered
WHITE SUPREMACY/ RACISM STUDIES
Aim: To develop an awareness and sensitivity to the dynamics of white supremacy. To facilitate the development of personal and collective strategies to counteract the effects of racism/white supremacy
III. Socio-Political and Economic Domain
PAN AFRIKAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNITY, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Aim: To instill commitment to developing Pan Afrikan cultural, political and economic unity and cooperation.
AFRIKAN AMERICAN NATIONALITY
Aim: To foster the commitment to the development of an organized, unified, productive and dynamic nationality of Afrikans in America
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Aim: To develop an awareness of the necessary qualities of leadership and to inculcate those necessary values and skills of leadership that are essential to the liberation and development of Afrikan people
Aim: To develop a sensitivity and commitment to eliminate any behaviors typical of sexism and sexual exploitation.
DEMOCRATIC PLURALITY OF RACIAL/ETHNIC NATIONALITIES IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Aim: To foster a profound awareness of the psychic and constitutional entrenchment of white racial/ethnic supremacy in the U.S. and to advance the Afrikan nationality within the "nation of nations" that the American political economy in fact is.
HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Aim: To foster an awareness of one of the higher goals of social activism, the creation of a world order that is culturally pluralistic and truly democratic, equalitarian, and just
IMPEDIMENTS
Aim: To inculcate a clear understanding of the historical impediments to Afrikan liberation and development, and further to provide a clear criteria for identifying and handling those less obvious impediments to the advancement of the race
INSTITUTIONAL AND NATIONHOOD GOALS
Aim: To foster a clear understanding of our mission to build the institutional infrastructure of an independent nationality (Nationhood), and to foster a conscious commitment and conduct to advance the New Afrikan Nation and Afrikan race toward independence and freedom, and the human race toward greater humanity
RBG Curricular Domains Outline
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is horizontally,vertically and concentrically integreted; so one learns / teaches multiple domains simutanously, as against a linear subject curriculum.
For example, the Standard American White Supremacy Curriculum most Afrikan children in America are taught from…(see: Intellectual Warfare/ a 2 hour Video presentation by Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers
The five curricular domains provide the basis for the organization of the subject content within the RBG Street Scholars Think Tanks various curricula. Each curricular domain consists of one or more curriculum fields. The curriculum fields provide the actual structural basis for RBG’s organization and presentation of subject matter within the curriculum. The purpose of listing the several fields under the curricular domains is to establish their relationships with the assumptions and aims of the ACTI (Afrikan Centered Thematic Inventory) above.
The curriculum fields are listed below under the curricular domains, and include the subject areas that comprise the respective fields of learning/treaching in RBG Street Scholars Think Tank’s curricula.
I. Cultural Ideological
A. Culture and Ideology
B. Creativity
II. Spiritual Psycho-Affective
A. Self Knowledge
B. Ethics and Morality
III. Socio-Political and Economic
A. Political Economy
B. Cognition and Inquiry
C. Technology
D. Mathematics
E. Sciences
F. Computer Sciences
IV. Technology
A. Mathematics
B. Science
C. Computer Science
D. Functional Skills
V. Nation building (Practical Applications)
A. Career Development Apprenticeships
B. Research Theory and Practicum’s
C.Community Development Projects
D: Organizational Experience
Each curricular domain includes several specific subjects that are integrated to reduce the compartmentalization that is typical of European subject centered curriculums."
THE RBG AFRIKAN CENTERED CURRICULUM PDF
FULL DOCUMENT WITH A HISTORY OF THE AFRIKAN EDUCATION MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
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