African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning
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African Centered Rites of Passage and Education was first published in 1996; originally, Dr. Goggins' master's thesis for Cultural Foundations of Education. African Centered Rites of Passage and Education sought to explore if there was a connection between education and rites of passage by examining the philosophical foundations that frame each
Lathardus Goggins II
Dr. Lathardus Goggins II has been an advocate for youth and education for more than 30 years, and is the author/creator of several books, articles, and prints, his latest publications are African-centered Rites of Passage and Education:Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning (2022) and Facing the Rising Sun: Lessons for the Authentic Self (2021). Dr. Goggins' formal studies include Geography, Higher Education Administration, Learning Theory, Philosophy and Foundations of Education, African-American Studies, African-Centered Rites of Passage, HIV/AIDS Prevention Instruction, Trauma Sensitive Learning, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.As a scholar, Dr. Goggins is examining the relationships between socialization, learning theories and academic achievement. Particularly, using the rites of passage model as a framework for educators to better understand where students are in their development and what services and activities would be appropriate to promote achievement. Professionally, Dr. Goggins has worked with "at-risk" youth as a Prevention Specialist and has worked more than 20 years in Higher Education. Dr. Goggins has been responsible for admissions, academic advising, community outreach, directing an Upward Bound program, student activities, programming, campus climate assessment, and setting campus policy on diversity and civility. As a professor, Dr. Goggins has taught leadership, cultural diversity and multicultural competency, and African-American male development courses. Dr. Goggins has taught middle school math and science. He has worked with Cleveland Metropolitan School District as a Humanware Partner, specialized in Social Emotional Learning, Trauma-Informed and Restorative Practices, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Currently, Dr. Goggins is the publisher/owner at Saint Rest Publications and Principle Consultant for Applied Academic Solutions. Dr. Goggins comprehensive experiences are complemented by his extensive travel throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, Australia, The U.S. Virgin Islands, Panama, The Bahamas, United Kingdom and Africa in the countries of Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana and South Africa.
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African-centered Rites of Passage and Education - Lathardus Goggins II
1996
Lathardus Goggins II is to be congratulated for advancing our understanding of the components of rites of passage and its value for African American children.
Dr. Janice E. Hale - Educator/Professor
Lathardus Goggins II contributes to the much needed research on the merits of rites of passage as a process for life cycle development.
Paul Hill Jr. - Founder of National Rites of Passage Institute
We must reclaim our youth from the Euro-American culture with Africentricity, rites of passage, and excellence — this book aids in that process.
Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu - Publisher, African American Images
2022
Dr. Goggins has done it again with a follow up to the acclaimed original. The title alone - African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning is powerful…yet the sad truth is that African-centered, culturally-responsiveness and social emotional learning are all initiatives that in far too many school districts across the country are prohibited in their schools and classrooms. It is my hope that this book will get into the hands of all who need it toward ensuring that Black children are exposed to African-Centered Education, Culturally-Responsive Practices and Social Emotional Learning. I endorse this book with zero reservation or hesitation.
Principal Baruti Kafele - Retired Principal, Consultant, Author
The practices in which you describe are very helpful envisioning how the principles can be put into practice… this is an important contribution to the field of African-centered Rites of Passage and Education.
Dr. Saliha Nelson, CEO - Urgent, Inc.
African-centered Rites of Passage & Education is the first steps to repairing a culture…allows for us to rebuild our community from inside out.
Rev. Ray Greene, Jr. - Executive Director, Freedom BLOC
Dr. Lathardus Goggins II has provided us with a road map to supporting our children through knowledge of self aligned with Social Emotional Learning. His approach through The Rites of Passage is based on our ancestors roots. …Please take the time to read this.
Dr. Sandy D. Womack Jr. - Educator & Author
Leadership Manual for Creating Successful Urban Schools
Dr. Goggins’ African-Centered Rites of Passage & Education is an essential read that helps us contextualize education as a primary instrument for the process of human development. His framework and model centering the Black experience is the connective tissue between an authentic sense of self, culturally responsive education, and Social Emotional Learning, of which Dr. Goggins echoes Dr. Dena Simmons’s poignant reminder that SEL alone is white supremacy with a hug.
Profoundly personal and important work from a transformational leader and relentless advocate for delivering a high-quality public education to ALL students.
Cynthia Peeples - Founding Director, Honesty for Ohio Education
A much-needed manifesto for community practitioners… Dr. Goggins’ new book is an essential guide for Black youth, families, and communities. If we are serious about nation-building and addressing the traumatic experiences of Black youth, schools, nonprofits, and other organizations should implement Dr. Goggins’ life-affirming new book as a strategy to reclaim our youth.
David Miller- Author of Dare To Be King: What If the Prince Lives?
In a time when telling the truth of racial history is under siege, Dr. Goggins brings clarity to the importance of African ritual in rites of passage for youth and education. He does so by adroitly integrating the healing elements of the ritual to enhance our current understanding of the benefits of emotional regulation and self-control.
Dr. Howard C. Stevenson - Professor, University of Pennsylvania
…within the current social and political climate that Dr. Goggins updates the original African-Centered Rites of Passage and Education, incorporating contemporary language and frameworks. It is a must-read
for anyone considering a career in education, any current educator, and any parent.… anyone truly interested in a framework that best facilitates an authentic education for children of African descent.
David E. Roberts - Educator & Host of Full Circle Podcast
Copyright © 2022 by Lathardus Goggins II
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, stored, or utilize in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in cases of brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023900443
ISBN: 978-0-9663972-2-2
ISBN: 979-8-8689881-3-4 (e book)
Cover design and artwork by Lathardus Goggins II
About the Author
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D. is an educator, advocate, scholar, and author. Dr. Goggins’ titles include: Facing the Rising Sun: Lessons for the Authentic Self (2021); Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage 25th-year Edition (2023); 365 Black: Nuggets of Wisdom for Each Day of the Year (2012); and Foundations: African-centered Education (2017). Dr. Goggins’ formal studies include Geography (B.A.), Cultural Foundation of Education (M.Ed.), and Educational Foundations and Leadership in Higher Education Administration (Ed.D.). Dr. Goggins’s certifications include Restorative Practices, Trauma-informed strategies, Culturally Responsive Classrooms, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, African American Studies, and African-centered Rites of Passage.
Dr. Goggins has worked with at-risk
youth as a Prevention Specialist and has worked for more than 20 years in Higher Education. In K-12, Dr. Goggins has taught middle school math and science and has been a Social Emotional Learning Specialist for an large urban school district.
Dr. Goggins has traveled throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, Australia, The U.S. Virgin Islands, Panama, The Bahamas, the United Kingdom, and Africa in the countries of Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, and South Africa.
Dr. Goggins is the Owner and Publisher at Saint Rest Publications; and Principal Consultant at Applied Academic Solutions. Most importantly, Lathardus Goggins II is the grateful and humbly proud
Dad of four.
For more about Dr. Lathardus Goggins II visit Dr.Goggins2.com
Acknowledgments
I acknowledge the Creator as the source of all that matters. The Creator of all energy, matter, love, blessings, grace, mercy, and creativity.
I acknowledge that I am one with the cosmos (creation). I am in and a part of the cosmos, and that the cosmos is in me and I am made of it.
I acknowledge the Word (John 1:1), the way of the Word (John 8:12), and the Word as my example, standard, and saving grace (Romans 15:5).
I acknowledge the first humans, the creators of culture (language, philosophy, science, art and civilization).
I acknowledge my ancestors who formed the roots of my cultural heritage that nurture all that I do.
I mourn of the lost potential and genius of the Africans who perished during the middle passage.
I acknowledge the struggle for liberation and freedom. I celebrate and honor those who worked to ensure that I have the opportunity to fully express my authentic self and the intent of the Creator for my life.
I acknowledge the support from my village (too many to name individually)… everyone who: prayed for me; challenged/encouraged me to be my better self; given me something to read or watch; introduced me to somebody I should know;
have sown into me; provided comfort; and have genuinely unconditionally loved me. In particular to my family - y’all
inspire me. I wrote this book in honor of Frank and Judie, Emmanuel and Emerline, Amos and Sofornia, Gray and Sarah, Robert and Ellen, Moses and Evangeline, Douglas and Willice, and Ellen and Lathardus.
I dedicate this book to my children, my children’s children, and all of my students (and their students and children). I hope this book contributes to creating a system of education worthy of your potential.
Table of Contents
Forward
Cornelius Wright, Mufasa’s Pride
Mia Street, Bridging the Gap Mentoring Program
Preface
African Centered Rites of Passage and Education (1996)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rites of Passage
General Definition
Interview Data
African-centered Rites of Passage
Sense of Self and The Educative Experience
Schooling African Americans
Implications of Mainstream Assumptions and Values
Coping Skills
Academic Implications of African-centered Rites of Passage
Culturally-based Socialization and Education
Conclusion
Parents
Educators
Scholars
Other Related Issues
Integration, Segregation, and Assimilation
Culture and Race
Twenty-five Years of Reflection and Learning (2022)
Emerging Evidence
Emergence of Social Emotional Learning
Educating the Whole Child
The Problem still Remains
Implications and Call to Action
Implications for Parents
Implications for Community
Implications for Educators
African-centered rites of passage in the classroom
Conclusion
Additional Resources
References (1996)
References (2022)
Forward
Why Afrikan-centered Education in the School System?
We’ve known each other since 1996. A mutual acquaintance introduced us. Hondre Outley had started a Rites of Passage program at his church. I was formerly trained in Afrikan Rites and was a member of Akebulan Sharo, an Afrikan rites organization in Akron, Ohio. We worked together for roughly four years.
In 2009, I founded Nitsch Knight Warriors at my school. I started an after-school program for boys at my school. That same year, Dre wanted to get back to serving the community through Afrikan-centered Rites of Passage with boys from the inner city. Dre’s inspiration and motivation came from Black male murder rates, particularly an incident in Chicago of someone he knew. Dre called me and asked if I was willing to start back doing Rites. I said of course. When he came to see me, he said, Bruh, I thought you were doing some little group; you are doing full fledge Rites,
Well, yeah, but it’s just me. Dre suggested, Why don’t you come on and help me get your feet wet again, and we can flesh out what you are feeling and what God is asking you to do?
Well, we are 13 years and counting.
My commitment to rites
work and organizing has grown from my being in the school system and teaching since 1996, particularly in inner-city schools and alternative schools, seeing that cultural relevance within the academic curriculum is non-existent. Moving to Houston and becoming a teacher, I saw the power of teaching Black and Brown students from a culturally relevant perspective helped them focus a lot more and remain interested in the subject of math, science, and social studies/history. Teaching at an all-male middle school where there were legit gang members actually paying attention was my catalyst for infusing cultural relevance within the core subjects because I saw most
of them would ask questions and listen. When I told them that Pythagoras studied at Timbuktu university, he got an Afrikan math theory named after him. This did not make the students mad, but it made my students want to learn more. When I taught middle school math, I had students who would walk into class after their social studies class and ask me to teach the first 15 minutes about history, and I found that it would make them want to pay attention to math. This is why having a rites mentoring program is so important and why we felt we could start Mufasa’s Pride to