From the Beginning: A Journey into Human Progress and Possibilities
Curriculum for the Frontiers of the 21st Century
From the Beginning: A Journey into Human Progress and Possibilities
Curriculum for the Frontiers of the 21st Century
Progress is moving forward from where you started, analyzing the path you are creating. History is looking back from where you're standing, admiring the path that you've taken. We are about making progress ...
AM Kweli
From the Beginning Oveview (a video essay)
This overview is a draft of a video essay describing an innovative curriculum. The curriculum examines human progress starting from the beginning of everything. Revisions are ongoing to improve the video essay's narration and flow while adding a list of sources and credits.
WATCH THE OVERVIEW OF THIS EXCITING PROJECT:
About Us
Our Mission Statement
KWELI EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES, INC
A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION
16783 West Creedance Blvd. • Surprise, AZ • 85387
(909) 518-9073 EIN: 20-4597913
Kweli Educational Enterprises Mission Statement:
The mission of Kweli Educational Enterprises, a citadel of pedagogical innovation, is to confront educational inequity by promoting learning from a focus on a human-progress foundation through a vital system distinguished by: • ‘Human-progress’ asserts a single forward-looking evidence-based narrative of cultural diversity and synthesis • A human values canon • Community-centered concepts • Developing entertaining learning experiences (curricula) • Immersive storytelling • Healing historical traumas. Beliefs: We believe that • There is a single human race with a common origin • The substantive diversity in humanity is cultural, not biological • There is an ongoing and emergent history of diverse human culture and ethnicity • All humans have intrinsic value • Ethnic diversity strengthens the human family • Cultural learning skills are critical in a global society • Music has universal value • Education is a community process • Equitable access to knowledge and learning technologies is a human right • Shared experiences are essential to cross-ethnic cohesion • The potential of cognitive plasticity is vast and unknown. Parameters: • We will practice Sankofa • We will adhere to a universal human ethics canon • We will rely on evidenced-based reasoning • We will make all decisions in the interest of the communities we serve • We will support endeavors aimed at bridging diverse communities and reconciling divergent ideologies • We believe historical content is processed through cultural knowledge.
Our Executive Director: Experience, Expertise, Insight
Dr. Arnett Duncan is an educator, social scientist, and curriculum developer with 40 years of professional experience. He is an award-winning professor who has taught college, high school, and middle school. In 2005, Dr. Duncan started Kweli Educational Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit corporation. He is a community education leader with successful grassroots initiatives addressing cross-ethnic solidarity and the sociology of community-based economic development. Dr. Duncan served the community in youth ministry for ten years. Since 2013, the Sankofa Project (SP) has been KEE's seminal commitment to community-based education. SP is a forum for multi-media, forward-looking content bringing the most pertinent evidence-based information, not presented in mainstream places, to out-of-the-mainstream spaces.
Kweli is a Swahili word meaning Truth.
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