Exploring Cultural Worldviews through African Canadians’ Lifelong Learning Experiences: Implications for Lifelong Learning Educators and Post-secondary Education Institutions

Social participation of children and youth with disabilities in Canada, France and Germany

“…Designed as a Master of Education programme with an Africentric focus at Mount Saint Vincent University, it allowed students self-identifying as having African-Canadian ancestry to engage in a very different way in their learning than they would usually have done in a context where they might have been the only person of African descent in the classroom. Those examples are not about segregation, but about its participants choosing to spend a moment in a community which they feel they belong to, which understands their lives, their issues, their worries better than anybody else and in which they do not feel the need to justify who they are (see Parris and Brigham 2010). In similar terms, many schools are having Gay-Straight Alliances, which are allowing to create safe spaces for LGBTQ 3 youth to express themselves, and not feel threatened by a heteronormative environment.…”