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Portrait Narratives Of Caring Teachers For African American High School Students, Larissa T. Mccormick
Portrait Narratives Of Caring Teachers For African American High School Students, Larissa T. Mccormick
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
For African American high school students, caring relationships extend beyond peer
interaction to include supporting adults, most particularly teachers, who are pivotal to
their educational experience and success or lack of success. The research problem
centered on the lack of diversity and authentic voice when discussing caring teacher-student relationships. Markedly, the voices of African American high school students
were lacking from the current body of research literature. The purpose of this narrative
qualitative study was threefold: (a) to capture the voices of African American high school
studentsâ as they shared their experience(s) about a caring teacher; (b) to capture the …