Debunking The Myth of Dependency: HBCUs and The Challenges of Western Education

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Author(s): Kehbuma Langmia (Howard University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 14
Source title: Administrative Challenges and Organizational Leadership in Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Charles B. W. Prince (Howard University, USA)and Rochelle L. Ford (Syracuse University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0311-8.ch003

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / Higher Education

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This chapter examines a bi-polar ideological constructs of Western and Non-western modes of education within the Historically Black Colleges and Universities educational system. Western curricula have ‘colonized' Black world educational systems for centuries making it hard to inculcate African ontological and epistemological ideologies in most universities. As a result, the birth of HBCUs was a welcome relief as African Americans and Blacks from Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and Europe found a ‘home' to be ‘historically aware' of their lineage and ancestry. This chapter makes a case through critical literature to argue that sustaining and empowering these Black Colleges and Universities through Western and Non-western educational traditions constitute the barometer for success. This would ensure their long lasting role in higher education in the United States and the world.

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