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Strategies For Thriving: A Qualitative Study Of Black Teachers Who Participated In Morehead State University's Teacher Preparation Program, Laraissa Davis-Morris
Strategies For Thriving: A Qualitative Study Of Black Teachers Who Participated In Morehead State University's Teacher Preparation Program, Laraissa Davis-Morris
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by LaRaissa Davis-Morris on October 30, 2018.
Culturally Relevant Professional Development: An Examination Of Race, Practice, And Self Through An Africa-American Teacher Study Group, Charnita V. West
Culturally Relevant Professional Development: An Examination Of Race, Practice, And Self Through An Africa-American Teacher Study Group, Charnita V. West
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
This naturalistic investigation examined how the implementation of a teacher study group assisted African-American teachers in instituting culturally relevant pedagogy. Ladson-Billings (1994) coined the term culturally relevant pedagogy to address the need for developing and implementing authentic methods for teaching African-American students. However, teachers also need opportunities to be engaged in learning experiences that will facilitate their growth in this area. Although teacher study groups are a popular form of professional development (Birchak et al., 1998), research on teacher study groups designed exclusively for African-American teachers is absent from the literature. Informed by tenets of sociocultural theory (Lave & Wenger, …