National Coalition for African Centered Rites of Passage
The CACRoP is a growing community of practitioners, facilitators, scholars,  parents, and activist committed to the advocation, study, development, and practice of an African-centered rites of passage process.  The coalition is open to anyone who recognizes that the African-centered rites of passage is the fundamental process by which an authentic African sense of self is developed.

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The Nabrit Family Adventure

Malika Kambe Umfazi (MKU) Sorority, Inc. MKU

The Village Foundation

Lane Community College Rites of Passage Summer Academies

 

Rites of Passage Youth Empowerment Foundation

Rites of Passage: Moments that Shape Our Lives

RECOMMENDED WEB SITES:

Black Male Development Symposium

The Bridge Builders

Girl Stories: Educational Activities

A Good Black Man

Pan-African Studies Community Education Program

Servant Warrior Leadership Rites of Passage  

The Nabrit Family Adventure

Rites of Passage Youth Empowerment Foundation

The National Rites of Passage Institute

UUNIK Academy

Rites of Passage (resources links compiled by Drexel Univ. graduate student)

NAACP Vancouver Branch - African American Rites of Passage Summer Academy

Rites of Passage in America

National Rites of Passage Institute

 

 

Ten Basic Assumptions of African Centered Rites of Passage (adopted in part from Dr. Anthony Mensah):

  1. The Creator does not create for failure.
  2. All humans are one with the Cosmos (the Creator and creation).
  3. Every person has the capacity to succeed.
  4. We are born with a driving intent to express the capacity to succeed.
  5. When the intent of the Creator is not met with appropriate content, a person’s potential for success is ruined.
  6. Inappropriate content brings reaction, and not intellectual growth, and the child’s ability to interact (use his or her intelligence) falls increasingly behind.  Thus, the further one’s intelligence falls behind, the more energy must go into compensation.
  7. With the infusion of inappropriate content, the young person’s intelligence is still out there in the previous passage, trying to make functional [sense] the intent of the Creator.
  8. He who does not cultivate his field will die of hunger.
  9. Rites of Passage in the child’s education provides a meaningful response to the intent.  The success of the Creator’s plan hinges directly on the person (infant, child, adolescent, or adult) being provided with content proper for the intent of that person.
  10. All persons who experience this type of education will benefit from it.

Resources by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II:

Other Research Links:

Workshops by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II - Workshops by Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.

Goggins, L (2007). African-Centered Rites of Passage
as a Retention Tool. NASPA - Multicultural Institute
Power Point Presentation.

Goggins, L (2004, Feb.). The Academic STARS
Retention Model: An Empirical Investigation.
Soup and Substance Power Point Presentation.

Goggins, L. (2003). The Academic STARS
Retention Model: An Empirical Investigation.
Unpublished Dissertation. The University of Akron.

Goggins, L. (1998). Bringing the Light into a New Day:
African Centered Rites of Passage. Akron, OH:
Saint Rest Publications

Goggins, L. (1996). African Centered Rites of Passage
and Education. Chicago: African American Images.

Foundations of African-Centered Education

Taking Ownership of Education

Information Transformation Learning Process

Teaching Trè Learning Project for Dr. McClendon's
Human Learning Course

African Centered rites of passage and education
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