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I Was Called “Aggressive” In A Classroom:” How Educator Preparation Programs Can Better Prepare Students For Diversity, Nikita Mc Cree
I Was Called “Aggressive” In A Classroom:” How Educator Preparation Programs Can Better Prepare Students For Diversity, Nikita Mc Cree
Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice
The paper is an account of an Afro-Caribbean, female Ph.D. candidate being called Aggressive while teaching at a predominately White institution (PWI) in the Midwest. The recollection of the experience explores, through the eyes of a Black female scholar, the emotions of being called Aggressive on a PWI campus and highlights the work that remains in helping develop future educators who are not threatened by ethnic and cultural diversity in the classroom.
Do The ‘Write’ Thing: Utilizing Spike Lee To Read The Word And World, Dominick N. Quinney
Do The ‘Write’ Thing: Utilizing Spike Lee To Read The Word And World, Dominick N. Quinney
Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice
College writing is an essential skill by which college students should begin to craft and construct their academic voices as they see and interpret the world around them in a scholarly setting. At the same time, as a result of varying phenomena, students have struggled to articulate themselves in written form, often performing what some describe as ‘writing apprehension'. In an effort to explore these phenomena, I developed a first-year seminar that allowed for both the concepts of race, ethnicity, identity, and writing to come together in an academic setting as a way to have students understand identity and its …
Racism In The College Boardroom? A Personal Narrative And Case Study, Tom Olson
Racism In The College Boardroom? A Personal Narrative And Case Study, Tom Olson
Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice
This paper explores the intersection of ethnicity, race, class, and unwritten but ingrained university policy through use of an anonymized personal narrative and case study. Intersectionality, as initially suggested by Lorde and later described by Crenshaw, provided the theoretical framework from which to explore this case. Development of the case was guided by four elements deemed as vital to effective case narratives: context, complexity, ambiguity, and relevance. The discussion focuses on the key question of the extent to which this was a case of racism, or if other factors might have accounted for the experience. The paper’s intent is to …