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An Exploratory Study: Grounded In Racial And Ethnic Dimensions Of Social Justice, Attitudes Of Teachers In Elementary And Middle Schools Towards Culturally Sensitive Constructivist Teaching For African American Students, Joy Gregg

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

Because of the substantial gap between the performance of African American and European American students, there was a critical need to study and understand issues that may contribute to the amelioration of this achievement gap. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand the cultural sensitivity of elementary and middle school teachers in the New York City Public Schools. This study attempted to uncover attitudes that teachers hold about teaching and learning for African American students, potentially helping to close the achievement gap. This study utilized an exploratory approach to investigate teachers’ attitudes toward culturally sensitive teaching for African-Americans. …