About "Teaching
& Learning about East Africa"
Project
"Teaching
& Learning about East Africa"
Project (TLEAP) is a "living
library"--a work in progress--of
resources for teaching and learning
about East Africa and about Swahili,
the most widely spoken language of
that region. The educational resources
are provided or recommended by East
Africa experts on the faculties of
the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn
Mawr College, and Delaware State University,
and by Master Teachers of the School
District of Philadelphia. The resources
are intended for the general public.
East Africa can be defined in several
ways.For most scholars it refers primarily
to the three modern-day countries
of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and
secondarily to the two close neighbors
Rwanda and Burundi.For many other
scholars East Africa includes adjacent
areas where Swahili-speaking peoples
reside and where they have had strong
influence.In this sense, East Africa
also includes parts of Somalia, Zaire,
Mozambique, and the Comoros Islands.
The project began in 1996-1997 when
educators from the Philadelphia area
met together in curriculum enrichment
seminars designed to focus on the
history, culture, language, literature,
archaeology, and arts of East African
peoples. Faculty participants and
master teachers from the Philadelphia
public schools--all trained in African
studies--drew on the seminars to produce
a series of model lessons, televised
nationally via satellite; lesson plans,
reproduced on this website; and specialized
bibliographies, also reproduced here.
(TLEAP) contains Swahili language
teaching materials that can be used
in conjunction with a televised language
course that was broadcast throughout
1997-98. These materials are intended
for use by K-12 students and teachers.
(TLEAP) represents a long-standing
collaboration between the African
Studies Center of the University of
Pennsylvania and the School District
of Philadelphia's Department
of African and African-American Studies
and its Department of Instructional
Media Technology. It is funded by
a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
Resources researched
by
Abdelaziz Marhoum, & David A. Samper
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