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Teacher's Resource Handbook for African Studies: an Annotated Bibliography of Curriculum Materials, Preschool Througu Grade Twelve DOCUMENT RESUME ED 137 213 SO 009 947 AUTHOR Hawkins, John N.; Maksik, Jon TITLE Teacher's Resource Handbook for African Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Curriculum Materials, Preschool througU Grade Twelve. UCLA African Studies Center Reference Series, Volume 16. INSTITUTION California Univ., Los Angeles. African Studies Center. PUB DATE 76 NOTE 75p.; For related documents, see SO 009 570-573 ; Bibliography published with the assistance of the Curriculum Inquiry Center, UCLA AVAILABLE FROMCurriculum Inquiry Center, Moore Hall 340, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024 ($1.50 paper cover) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.8? Plus Postage. HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Africal Culture; *African History; *Arnotated Bibliogrdphies; *Area Studies; Bibliographies; Books; Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Differences; Curriculum Evaluation; Elementar2 Secondary Education; Films; Filmstrips; Foreign Culture; :*Instnuctional Materials; International Studies; Maps; Periodicals; Phonograph Records; Slides; Social Studies; Tape Recordings; Transparencies IDENTIFIERS *Africa ABSTRACT Six hundred and sixty-two listings of instructional materials for teaching about Africa are presented in this annotated bibliography to help teachers identify materials that will assist them in developing courses and units of study. Materials are identified that can be used by precollegiate teachers of all subject areas. This handbook is arranged by grade levels--preschool to grade three, grades 4-6, and grades 7-12. Within each section materials are divided by geographic region and listed alphabetically according to ti:.eir instructional formats. The region divisions include Africa (general), Western, Eastern/Central, and Southern. Types of materials include multimedia, books, filmstrips and slides, records and tapes, maps and transparencies, duplicating masters, and pictures and charts. Entries include title, price, publisher and description. A list of publishers and distributors is included for ordering materials. The handbook concludes with tvo evaluation forms which may assist teachers in selecting materials on the basis of their cross-cultural value and for purposes of general assessments. (JR)1 Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished materials not available from ot er sources.ERIC makes every effort to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal reproducibility are often encounteredand this affects the quality of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available via the ERIC DocumentReproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions supplied by EDRS are thebest that can be made from the original. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE .PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF for COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL BY MICRO. FIQIE ONLY HAS GrNTE BY EDUCATION _ra_aL±c_gt THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- African Studies DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM TO EPIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERAT THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN- iNG UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE NA ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS TInNAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE- rIJR T HER REPRODUCTION OUTSIDE SENT OFF ICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THE EkC SYSTEM REOUIWES PERMIS EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY SION Of THE COPYRIGHT OWNER " reN An Annotated Bibliography (NI of re\ Curriculum Materials r-1 Preschool through Grade Twelve by JOHN N. HAWKINS and JON MAKSIK OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 16 AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 UCLA African Studies Center Reference Series Volume 16 Published with the assistance of the Curriculum Inquiry Center UCLA Teacher's ResourceHandbook for African Studies An Annotated Bibliography of Curriculum Materials Preschool through GradeTwelve by JOHN N. HAWKINS and JON MAKSIK OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 16 AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 ucL4 African Studies Center Publications University of California, Los Angeles Copyright ©1976 by The Regents of the Universityof California All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 CONTENTS Introduction, P. V Editor's Note, P. VII 1. Preschool to Grade Three Africa (General) Item Item Multimedia 1-3 Films 153-165 Books 4 Filmstrips 166-171 Films 5-12 Records and Tapes 172 Filmstrips 13-16 Pictutes 173 Records and Tapes 17-22 Southern Maps 23 Books 174-180 Pictures 24 Films 181-182 Western Filmstrips 183-184 Multimedia 25 Records and Tapes 185 Films 26-29 Filmstrips 30-33 3. Grades Seven to Twelve Records 34-35 Pictures 36 Africa (General) Item Eastern/Central Multimedia 186-189 Multimedia 37 Books 190-265 Books 38-39 Films 266-291 Films 40 Filmstrips and Slides 292-316 Filmstrips 41 Records and Tapes 317-329 Southern Maps. Transparencies. Films 42-44 Duplicating Masters 330-353 Pictures and Charts 354-357 2. Grades Four to Six Western Multimedia 358-362 Africa (General) Item Books 363-375 Multimedia 45 Films 376-406 Books 46-65 Filmstrips and Slides 407-415 Films 66-79 Records and Tapes 416-424 Filmstrips and Slides 80-98 Charts 425 Records and Tapes 99-103 Eastern/Central Maps and Transparencies 104-105 Multimedia 426 Pictures 106 Books 427-449 Western Films 450-478 Multimedia 107-108 Filmstrips and Slides 479-489 Books 109-127 Records and Tapes 490-495 Films 128-136 Southern Filmstrips 137-141 Books 496-506 Records 142-144 Films 507-527 Eastern/Central Filmstrips and Slides 528-530 Books 145-152 Records and Tapes 531-535 III 6 4.Ungraded Africa (General) Hem Ilem Multimedia 536-538 Books 625-626 Books 539-542 Films 627-640 Films 543-559 Filmstrips 641 Filmstrips 560-572 Records 642-649 Records and Tapes 573-590 Charts 650 Maps and Transparencies 591-595 Southern Charts 596-597 Multimedia 651-652 Western Films 653-654 Multimedia 598-599 Records 655-658 Films 800=616 Pictures and Charts 659-662 Records 617-622 Publishers & Distributors p.62 Charts 623 Materials Assessment Sheetp.66 Eastem/Central Cross Cultural Evaluation Sheet, Multimedia 624 p.67 7 iv INTRODUCTION Despite the fact there is an increasing interest in Africa and African affairs, pre-collegiate schools in America have largely ignored introducingthe study of Africa into their curriculum. This omission has implicationsfor virtually every subject area. The need for fresh understandingon Africa, The Dark Continent is as urgent as any part of the world. The very term Dark exposesour ignorance and its attendant prejudices. In a recent survey conducted by UCLA's African Studies Centeramong elementary students in the Southern California area. the results indicatedan urgent need for accurate instruction materials. Amongsome of the questions answered in the survey, 93% said that Africa wasa country, 97% thought it was entirely jungle. and 100% thought Africa was alwaysvery hot: that it was in- habited totally by blacks: that it was filled with wild animals; andthat it was smaller than the United States. However, while the United States is a very large country. Africa isa very large continent. It is. in fact. three and one-half times the size ofthe U.S. and \ has a population of two hundred fifty million (250,000.000) and has over eight hundred (800) different groups of people basedon language, together with different 'dialects belonging to each of these languages. Through the Center's outreach program we have attempted todemonstrate the special situation of Africa and thus produce a better, more tolerant under- standing of the continent. We are often asked where teacherscan find materials that will assist them in developing units and courses for theirstu- dents. In some instances we were able to become directly involved in materials being prepared such as our multi-media kit on African cultureand art and in other instances we were able to indicate where a teacher might seek further assistance from our existing available resources. The African Studies Center in cooperation with the Curriculum Inquiry Center and the Graduate School of Education have embarkedon a pr. lent to assist teachers at the pre-collegiate level in the study of African history. society and culture. A first step has been the identification of current materials organized by grade level, region and format. We have attemptedto provide to the classroom teacher a comprehensive bibliography of instructional materials for the study of Africa. Previous studies in the Los Angeles area indicated that many teachers felt motivated to offer units on Africa, but were not aware of the extent and sources of materials on the subject The materials which are listed below may serve to augment or replace materials already in use by teachers. The attempt has been made to be as inclusive as possible with regardto both grade level and type of instructional material. Educational publishing in- formation on file at the Curriculum Inquiry Center in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA was extensively surveyed for materials directly relatedto the study of Africa at the precollegiate level. Those materials selectedwere ar- ranged by grade level appropriateness, region of Africa included in the unit, and instructional format. If a brief description of the unit was included in the publisher's statement then it also appears (in edited form) in the bibliography. It is important to stress the fact that it was not possible to evaluatethe numerous items listed. The second stage of the Africa project will be to builda collection of African instuctional materials in the Curriculum Inquiry Center and begina systematic evaluation in cooperation with the Graduate School of Education. Two model evaluation forms have been appended which may assist the teacher in the task of materiat3 evaluation. The "Materials Assessment Sneet" will allow the User to form some judgment as to the quality of the cross-cultural oontent of the materials. Usert are encouraged first to attempt to receive the materials on an approval bases and then to apply some evaluation, guidelines before purchasing. Some students at the upper secondary level may be able to work with more advanced materials usually 'required at the college level. These materials have not been listed in this bibliography.
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