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Inservice Training: How to Reach Teachers in Sixty Minutes to Six Weeks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

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Africanists experienced in outreach generally agree that in the long run the most effective way to improve the U.S. public’s knowledge of Africa will be to reach the precollegiate school population. And by extension, the most effective means of reaching that student population is through those persons who determine the substance and scope of materials taught on the precollegiate level: teachers, administrators, librarians, and other support personnel.

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Research Article
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1980 

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Notes

1. We wish to thank colleagues associated with the following institutions for their prompt and frank responses to our inquiries: Boston University, University of Florida, Howard University, Indiana University, Michigan State University, University of North Carolina, Northwestern University, Stanford University, SUNY-New Paltz, UCLA, and University of Wisconsin.

2. Hall, Susan J. found in a recent study, Africa in US Schools, K-12: A Survey (New York, 1978)Google Scholar, that the majority of teachers teaching about Africa had no background in Africa or in any other Third World area.