Advance value-creating-modeled curriculum projects in Africana communities to foster ubuntu, happiness, and contributive lifestyles¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 review), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The article recommends designing curriculum and extra-curricular activities that promote optimum conditions for value creation, so that global citizenship orientation can appeal to Africana youth who often find current educational practices irrelevant. It concludes that "The opportunity derived from projects applying a value -creating-modeled curriculum in the Africana community is well worth advancing". Human-unity-minded educators are called to collaborate on a new wave of educational practices fostering happier students.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Collaboration among human-unity-minded educators
• learning activities relating to family, local communities, and the global world

Constraints¶

• The prevailing and dominant global materialistic pattern is described as veering youth away from Africana humanism

Target Learners¶

• Africana youth on the continent and in the diaspora
• lifelong learners

Target Learning Goals¶

• value creation
• resilience and contributive lifestyles
• respect for human life and human unity
• coping skills and international cooperation

Affordances¶

• Soka Value Creating Education Happiness Aim

Claims¶

• A formal curriculum that includes citizenship projects and courses also appears to be an effective type of citizenship education [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Coach youth to recognize problem-solving opportunities, master effective heuristics, and bolster motivation through collaboration

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Stewart Williams, J. E. (2020). Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education and Africana Humanism: Africa as the Continent of the 21st Century. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 9(SI). https://ojed.org/jise