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Full-Text Articles in Education
Black Lives Matter In Teaching English As A Second Language!, Kristin Lems
Black Lives Matter In Teaching English As A Second Language!, Kristin Lems
Faculty Publications
The Winter 2020 issue of theIllinois Reading Council Journal published a special issue focusing on “action for equity,” with thoughtful articles and abundant family and classroom resources. This issue of the “wELLcome”column, which is dedicated to topics regarding English language learners (ELLs), continues in that same vein. In this issue, we place the spotlight on ELLs of African descent, their teachers, and their schools.
An Examination Of African American Male Educators' Perceptions Of Relationships And Discrimination, Akiva S. Carson
An Examination Of African American Male Educators' Perceptions Of Relationships And Discrimination, Akiva S. Carson
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In the field of education, African-American men are greatly underrepresented across all school settings. In the state of Illinois of nearly 130,000 certified educators, there are less than two thousand (2,000) African American males across the state. Through a critical race theory lens, the focus of this narrative study was to explore what can be learned by researching/re-framing how African-American educators perceive their experience of developing relationships across educational domains and how they make sense of the ways in which they experience discrimination and construct relationships with others. Through the use of interview, observation and journal responses, insight into their …