Developing Awareness of Transformation
- “Studying Abroad helped me to become a more reflective person and as a result, I became more patient with myself and gained a deeper appreciation for my Blackness.” (D. Williams reflections, 2017)
- What students experience are not events as much as it is culture, and definitively African culture. The connective aspect is rooted in African ontological recognition and sensibilities, (Jimoh, 2013).
- Researchers have confirmed confronting social and cultural miseducation is important to developing students’ senses of belonging (Bruce et al., 2012).
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Developing Awareness of Transformation of African American Students
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“The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated,” (Baldwin, 1963).
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