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Chismosas Against White Hetero-patriarchy: Chisme as a Literacy Pedagogy of Resistant Girlhood/Womanhood Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Mónica González Ybarra, Grace D. Player
Women of Color feminists have theorized and pointed to the ways that chisme is a resistant practice for Women and Girls of Color. In line with this theoretical and epistemological framing of chisme...
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Editorial Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad, M. Billye Sankofa Waters, Shamari Reid
Published in Equity & Excellence in Education (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2023)
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Freedom Moves: Theorizing Hip Hop as Black Liberatory Practice Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 H. Samy Alim
This article theorizes Hip Hop as Black liberatory practice by explicating the links between Hip Hop knowledges, pedagogies, and futures. I draw on multiple research and classroom experiences, incl...
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“Love Liberates:” A Kitchen Table Talk on Black Liberatory Education Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Dasmen Richards, Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad, Wallace Grace, Kara May, Shamari Reid, M. Billye Sankofa Waters, Maisha Winn
Rooted in the Black feminist tradition, this kitchen table talk brings together scholars who are doing work in the name of liberation. We begin by naming people who ground us in our beings and our ...
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FOR THE CULTURE Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07
Published in Equity & Excellence in Education (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2023)
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Black Liberatory Educational Policy: A Systematic and Unapologetic Literature Review on the Advancement of Black Teachers’ Pedagogies and Practices Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nathaniel D Stewart, Ellisha L. Dunnigan, Ashley A. Purry, Charles C. Borom
Our systematic, unapologetic, and Black education-focused literature review sought to examine how educational researchers, Black teachers, and Black students describe and co-imagine educational pol...
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“It’s How You’re Delivering These Messages”: An Examination of Black Women Early Childhood Educators’ Liberatory Practices Through Poetic Inquiry Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Meghan L. Green
Over the course of 18 months, I found myself on a journey that began with two research questions based on my wonderings and observations about the lives of the women I witnessed engaging with young...
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Cycles of Fugitivity: How Black Teacher Fugitive Space Shapes Black Teacher Pedagogies Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jessica Lee Stovall
As conservatives ban the teaching of Black history and critical understandings of race across the country, Black teachers are turning again to fugitive pedagogies, or subversive ways of teaching, t...
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Hip Hop Language Pedagogies for Liberation: A Critical Cultural Cypher on Language, Race, and Education Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Brian Mooney, Joniesha Hickson, Aaleah Oliver, Jahvel Pierce, April Baker-Bell
In this article, co-authors Brian Mooney, Joniesha Hickson, Aaleah Oliver, and Jahvel Pierce discuss language, race, and education with author April Baker-Bell. Speaking from their perspectives as ...
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Love Yourz: Developing Black Students’ Positive Racial Identities in ELA Classrooms Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Kisha Porcher
The purpose of this mixed-methods case study was to explore the ways that Black English Language Arts (ELA) teachers utilize their positive racial identities to engage Black students in developing ...
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“Each day I find ways to fight for my students”: Black Science Teachers as Advocates and Abolitionists Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Vanessa N. Louis, Natalie S. King
In this article, we highlight the experiences of two Black early-career science teachers who transitioned from their STEM professions into the classroom. This study explored factors that influenced...
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We are transformers: on being black, women, and pedagogues Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton
Through subversive teaching and learning methods, Black women educators have always been trailblazers and pioneers, creating space for Black students to thrive. This article provides a critical ana...
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“They’re Already Punished Enough:” Fugitivity and Abolitionist Lessons from Black Women Alternative School Teachers Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jaminque L. Adams
While much of the literature on Black women teachers documents their legacy of addressing anti-black racism in traditional public-school settings, there is room for more dialogue about the labor of...
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Doing The Work to Do the Work: Black Teacher Educators Learning to Heal and Healing to Teach Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Asif Wilson, Iesha Jackson
In this study, we, both co-authors and Black teacher educators, explored our experiences imagining and practicing Black liberatory pedagogical praxes through the contours of anti-Black violence. Fr...
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We Will Not Walk Through Rotten Orchards: Abolition and (Re)nourishing the Soil of Black Communities Through Insulated Praxis in Education Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton
During a time of racial unrest and attention to social justice, Black communities are developing a deeper understanding of prevailing systemic flaws in policing, policies, and education. There are ...
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Getting Black Men to the Blackboard: Factors That Promote Black Men Teachers’ Entry into the Teaching Profession Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Sarah Manchanda, Travis Bristol, Phelton Moss
Despite existing recruitment and retention efforts, there has been a persistent underrepresentation of Black men teachers in the U.S. educator workforce. The present study employed a phenomenologic...
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Toward What Justice and Justice for Whom? A BlackCrit Meditation on and against Miami University’s Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry’s Threshold Concepts Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Nathaniel Bryan
This article is my personal and decidedly unapologetic Black meditation on and against the threshold concepts the Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry, where I formerly taugh...
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A Call to Action: Exploring Intersectional Analyses of Black Fathers and Daughters in STEM Learning Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Tisha Lewis Ellison, Nicole Joseph, Jakita O. Thomas
Black fathers and daughters are the least explored relationship within parent-child and STEM research. This article serves as an examination of the literature around their relationships and STEM le...
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Sanctuary as Praxis: Engaging Families at the Crossroads of Disability, Education, and Migration Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Chelsea Stinson
This qualitative study is focused on the political and social connections among disability, race, language, and migration that affect how emergent bilingual students are labeled as disabled and mar...
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(Re)turn Us to Our Names: A reflective dialogue on space, transitions, and elsewhere possibilities Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Jamila J. Lyiscott, Keisha L. Green, Justin A. Coles, Esther O. Ohito
Published in Equity & Excellence in Education (Vol. 56, No. 3, 2023)
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“It’s a Vibe”: Belonging, Healing, and Liberation in Community Spaces By Us and For Us Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Shaneé A. Washington, Kayla Mendoza Chui, Jessica I. Ramirez, Kaleb Germinaro
Through conceptual framing of “a vibe” and abolitionist teaching, our study explored the self-determining work of Black and other People of the Global Majority (PGM) who have curated “by us, for us...
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Black Feminist (Re)Constructions of Education in the Afterlife of Abolition: An Invitation Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Amber M. Neal-Stanley
Scholars have utilized the allegory of Reconstruction to trace threads between the historical and contemporary struggles for freedom. In this article, I highlight the ways that abolition has always...
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Culturally Sustaining Inclusive Systemic Design to Address Overrepresentation of Students of Color with and without Dis/abilities in Exclusionary Practices Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Dosun Ko, Yehyang Lee
ABSTRACT Overrepresentation of students of color with and without dis/abilities in exclusionary practices (e.g., suspension, expulsion) is a historically accumulating educational debt that stems from the intersection of racism, ableism, and other forms of oppression. As a historical, sociopolitical, and geospatial situated issue, addressing racial disproportionality in exclusionary practices requires
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The Role of Teacher Education Programs in Developing Teacher Candidates’ Antiracist Stance on Teaching Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Tanya Maloney, Douglas B. Larkin, Nusrat Hoque
ABSTRACT This article presents an argument that although teacher education programs may aim to prepare teachers to be antiracist agents of change, they often fall short of doing so and that investigations of why can provide essential insights for teacher education. The authors use the critique of liberalism tenet of critical race theory to analyze three teacher candidates’ experiences learning to teach
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“Mi conciencia habla inglés, aunque yo no quiera”: Unearthing sociopolitical wisdom through translingual poetry Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Rachel Snyder Bhansari, Grace Cornell Gonzales, Patricia Venegas-Weber
ABSTRACT In this study, we examine translingual identity poems written by three focal Latinx Teacher Candidates (TCs) in response to assignments in their Teacher Education Program (TEP). To interpret the focal TCs work, we bring together theories of raciolinguicized subjectivities, translingual literacies, and sociopolitical wisdom. Through thematic analysis, we argue that the use of translingual identity
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Building Trusting Relationships and Reciprocal Community: Inquiries into Teachers Working for and with Undocumented Migrant Parents Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Yeji Kim, Jiyoung Kang
ABSTRACT Conceptually guided by asset-based approaches to migrant parent–teacher relationships, this qualitative case study explores the perspectives and experiences of teachers working at St. Mary’s Preschool (pseudonym), which serves the vast majority of undocumented children and their families in South Korea. More specifically, using asset-driven lenses that position migrant parents as collaborators
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Are We Preparing Teachers to Fight Labor Oppression?: A Critical Community Autoethnography Interrogating Social Justice Teacher Education Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Kevin L. Clay, Brionna Nomi, Preeti Kamat
ABSTRACT Teachers in public schools regularly face labor oppression. Despite this reality, in research and practice, “social justice teacher preparation” has largely neglected the topic of labor struggle. We offer this community auto-ethnography as a collective reflection on how we came to our own understandings around these issues and what we learned from supporting students’ development around these
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Epistemologies of Family: Intentionally Centering Relationality, Mutuality and Care in Educational Research Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Hui-Ling S. Malone, Grace D. Player, Timothy San Pedro
This article resulted from an American Education Research Association (AERA) conference presentation that consisted of a dialogue between three scholar-siblings of color who use methodological path...
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Basketball as Borderlands Play: Informal Spaces as Sites of Learning and Refusal Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Juan F. Carrillo
Drawing from Anzaldúa’s (1999) ideas on borderlands, this conceptual article addresses the potential of basketball as a space for developing critical subjectivities within minoritized communities. ...
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Wu-Tang for the Children: Swarming Elsewhere for Aesthetic (Re)Imaginings of Community, Theory, & Praxis Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Bretton A. Varga, Tommy Ender
The work in this article (re)traces the nuances embedded within the aesthetics of the Wu-Tang Clan to draw attention to two theoretical, Wu-based concepts: Shaolin and swarming. This article leans ...
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The Marathon Continues: Black Faculty Awakened & Inspired by Neighborhood Nip to Redesign Community-Engaged Teacher Education Courses Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Kisha Porcher, Shamaine Bertrand
The purpose of this conceptual article is to illustrate how our awakening after Nipsey Hussle’s death, our visit to his memorial, his music and life, and our lived experiences influenced a redesign...
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Finding Renewal and Inspiration through the Teaching and Learning of Black Education Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Maya Phelps, Emille Taylor, Michelle A. Purdy
Drawing on counter-storytelling and oral history methodology, we reflect on how the teaching and learning of the past, present, and future of Black education in the Spring of 2022 both renewed and ...
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“False Positives, Re-Entry Programs and Long Term English Learners”: Undoing Dichotomous Frames in U.S. Language Education Policy Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Nelson Flores, Mark Lewis
ABSTRACT At the core of contemporary U.S. language education policy is the dichotomous dividing of bilingual students into English Learners (ELs) who are entitled to extra support and non-ELs who are not entitled to this support. In this article, we genealogically trace the normative assumptions that go into this framing of the issue. We begin by examining the historical development of this dichotomous
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Designing for Joy: Constructing Equity Trails in Fandom-Centered Classrooms Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Karis Jones, Scott Storm
ABSTRACT This article traces how multiple equity-focused goals were negotiated in collectively designing a classroom that centered joyful fandom literacy practices, considering how teacher-researchers and youth use expanded conceptions of equity trails in a social design experiment to reset harmful but normalized classroom, disciplinary, and fandom practices. Using methods of collaboratively aligning
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“Sitting With...“ Narratives of Teaching About Antiblackness in Teacher Education Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Brittany Aronson, Adrian Parker, Devin Moran, Jing Tan, Kristan Barczak, Madiha Syeda, Hannah Stohry, Prince Johnson
ABSTRACT We are a collaborative teaching team at a mid-sized, predominately white institution (PWI), who sought to explore teaching about antiblackness in teacher education. Using an antiblackness theoretical framework we asked: (1) What are our individual and collective curricular responsibilities as marginalized faculty and instructors within this present moment? (2) How have we adapted and adjusted
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A Kitchen-Table Talk on Disrupting and Dreaming Beyond the Prescribed Curriculum Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Yvette M. Regalado, Jessica Martell, Farima Pour-Khorshid, Tim San Pedro, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Mariana Souto-Manning
This kitchen-table talk is grounded in Black and Chicana feminist traditions, with the facilitator, Yvette M. Regalado, senior scholar Drs. Farima Pour-Khorshid, Timothy San Pedro, Yolanda Sealey-R...
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Co-making against antiBlackness Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-06-21 ReAnna S. Roby, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan, Day Greenberg
This article focuses on how Black girls counter the antiBlackness that pervades the culture of STEM/making through their STEM-rich, community-engaged co-making practices. As youth engage each other...
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Towards a Jazz Pedagogy: Learning with and from Jazz Greats and Great Educators Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Autumn A. Griffin, Angela Crawford, Bonnee Breese Bentum, Samuel Aka Reed, Geoffrey Winikur, Amy Stornaiuolo, Barrett Rosser, Bethany Monea, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Throughout this article we argue that collectivity and soul inform the work of the expert teachers who we refer to as Jazz Pedagogues. Jazz’s complicated history, like teaching, calls for a conside...
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Indigenous Zoom: Relational Approaches to Virtual Learning Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Jason A. Rosenblum, Michelle M. Jacob
ABSTRACT In this article, we reflect on the chaos and stress educators and students endured during the move to emergency remote teaching, acknowledge the ongoing need for relational approaches in our classrooms, and draw from Yakama teachings about how we might make educational spaces more welcoming for everyone. Our work in this article is a beginning, an offering, an invitation for us to pause and
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Self-Silencing as Protection: How the “Angry Black Woman” Stereotype Influences How Black Graduate Women Respond to Gendered-Racial Microaggressions Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Angel M. Jones
ABSTRACT This study examines how Black graduate women respond to gendered-racial microaggressions at a historically White institution. Using Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism, this study also explores the social and psychological factors that contribute to their responses. Data suggest that participants’ responses are influenced by stereotype threat and a fear of perpetuating the “angry
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For White Folks Who Teach Hip-Hop—and the Rest of Ya’ll, Too: Interrogating the Positionality of Hip-Hop Educators and Researchers Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Edmund Adjapong, Kelly R. Allen
ABSTRACT Historically, across U.S. education systems, traditional teaching strategies and school curricular practices have been anchored in Western views and Eurocentric frameworks that position whiteness as the center of legitimate knowledge and, as a result, other knowledge as peripheral and insignificant. In this article, we offer practical considerations for educators and researchers who seek to
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On Being Ed Emcees: Toward Hip-Hop Educational Leadership Theory, Research, and Praxis Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Anthony R. Keith Jr.
Advocating for the advancement of hip-hop based education, critical qualitative research, and leadership for educational equity, I explain a theory of hip-hop educational leadership and discuss fin...
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‘Apes,’ ‘monkeys,’ and vibranium: Antiblackness moves in Australian classrooms Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Ligia López López
ABSTRACT Racism against Black people, otherwise known as antiblack racism or antiblackness, exists in Australian classrooms and in the Australian curriculum. Contrary to the belief that antiblack racism exists offshore in distant lands away from celebrated multicultural Australia, this article demonstrates how antiblackness lives within the nation. Despite antiblack racism’s strong hold, young people
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Some Thoughts and Questions on (Self-)Authorship in Justice-Centered Education Research: A Poetic Polyvocal Editorial Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Esther O. Ohito, Keisha L. Green, Justin A. Coles
Published in Equity & Excellence in Education (Vol. 56, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Are Deficit Perspectives Thriving in Trauma-Informed Schools? A Historical and Anti-Racist Reflection Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Cora Palma, Annmary S. Abdou, Scot Danforth, Amy Jane Griffiths
ABSTRACT Mental health research concerning adverse childhood experiences and neurocognitive trauma has prompted many school districts to pursue the development of trauma-informed schools that attend specifically to the emotional and instructional needs of affected students. Researchers and practitioners are fast proliferating trauma-informed professional practices. Given research findings indicating
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Allied Attestations: Troubling a Progressive Goodwill and ‘Duty to Speak Out’ Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Ethan Chang, Uriel Serrano, Julie Kasper
ABSTRACT Increasingly fraught disputes over education have elevated local school boards as key sites of inquiry. In this critical ethnography, we examine how ostensibly neutral school board rules, routines, and relations play out in practice. We asked, How do (queer) youth of color proponents, white opponents, and white allies of an anti-oppressive educational program exercise their agency within the
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“It’s What We’re About”: Youth Epistemologies in the Design of Social and Educational Futures Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Lauren Leigh Kelly
This article discusses how activist-oriented BIPOC youth designed an annual conference rooted in youth culture and social justice. As a participant-observer, I analyze how these youth co-constructe...
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Time will tell (trust the process) Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Aisha R. Shaibu
ABSTRACT Time Will Tell (Trust the Process) is a composition of literary art that challenges the idea of faith being enough to serve as the strongest tool in someone’s possession when hard work and effort fall short of their ability to carry an individual through trying times. The expression, “working twice as hard to get half as far” is a Black proverb, a cultural colloquialism that emphasizes the
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BGL Rooted Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Tamara T. Butler
ABSTRACT Since I often incorporate collage making into my teaching, I offer ”BGL Rooted” as an artifact of my own approaches to teaching, writing and being.
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Good teaching, warm and demanding classrooms, and critically conscious students: Measuring student perceptions of asset-based equity pedagogy in the classroom Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Liz Bergeron, Emily Virtue, Shamella Cromartie, Shanice Harrington
Educational researchers have offered a number of different measures to explore the use of equity pedagogies. Such measures traditionally use teacher self-report as the primary metric and few invest...
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An Exploration of Teachers’ Knowledge and Awareness of Issues and Barriers Encountered in Supporting LGBT+ Students: A Study in a Catholic Secondary School in Ireland Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Stephen McShane, Margaret Farren
ABSTRACT In this study, we focused on teachers’ knowledge and awareness of LGBT+ issues in a Catholic secondary school in Ireland. We explored the barriers teachers encounter that prevent them from being openly supportive of LGBT+ students. For this study, 40 teachers completed an online questionnaire, which was followed by a smaller focus group interview comprising 6 teachers. The findings demonstrate
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Healing-Centered Educator Activism in Mathematics Actualized by Women of Color Mathematics Teacher Activists Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Kari Kokka
ABSTRACT Many teacher activists engage in justice-oriented work within and outside their classrooms, yet the work of mathematics teacher activists has been understudied. In this qualitative interview study, I investigated ten women of Color mathematics teacher activists’ actualization of their organizing work, which includes the creation of and participation in grassroots collectives, podcasts, and
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Queer punishments: School safety and youth of color in the United States Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Gabrielle Orum Hernández, Chris Barcelos
ABSTRACT Although educational research and policymaking in the United States has generally framed LGBTQ youth and youth of color as mutually exclusive groups, LGBTQ youth of color are increasingly included in discourses surrounding school safety. These discourses tend to position youth as vulnerable, at-risk subjects who are passive victims of interpersonal homophobia. Using the theoretical frameworks
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“It’s This Practice of Being With”: A Kitchen-Table Talk on Queer and LGBTQ+ Educational Justice Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Karen Zaino, Ed Brockenbrough, Cindy Cruz, Latrise P. Johnson, Z Nicolazzo
ABSTRACT This kitchen-table talk examines what queer and trans* ways of knowing, being, and doing offer to movements for educational justice. We begin by sharing artifacts that illuminate our relationship to queer and trans* justice in education, and from these personal experiences, we explore the tensions and possibilities of queer and trans* dis/embodied epistemologies, with particularly attention
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Advancing Racial Equity in Extended Clinical Practice Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Rachel Roegman, A. Lin Goodwin, Emilie M. Reagan, Laura Vernikoff, Joonkil Ahn, Andrew Pau Hoang
ABSTRACT In this conceptual essay, we analyze a recent trend in teacher preparation: extended clinical practice. We unearth how this practice continues to perpetuate the racial status quo instead of achieving educational change. We draw on institutionalized racism to examine how and why clinical practice in P-12 schools, often viewed as the most important or impactful component of teacher preparation
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”You Just Want to Start Trouble”: A Chicana Bilingual Maestra’s Trenza of Her Path Towards Conocimiento Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Katherine Espinoza, Enrique David Degollado
ABSTRACT Drawing on Chicana Feminist Epistemologies, we use trenzas as theory and method for unearthing Sonia’s activist trajectory on her path towards conocimiento. The trenza, or braid, consists of testimonio, cultural intuition, and confianza to weave together the complexity of Sonia’s story from early life to her professional career. Through testimoniando, Sonia reveals the constraints and racism
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Finding Home in a Hopeless Place: Schools as Sites of Heteronormativity Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Sarah Simi Cohen, Bryan J. Duarte, Jennifer Ross
ABSTRACT For this study, we operated with a critical theoretical understanding of schools as sites of (cis)heteronormativity, which led us to question the impact of heteronormative schooling environments. We used data from the 2017 national Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to examine the self-reported experiences and feelings of high school students with gay or lesbian, bisexual, or questioning
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Youth's Experiences of LGBTQ+-Inclusive Curriculum in a Secondary U.S. Classroom at the Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, Race, and Class Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Ryan Schey
ABSTRACT Previous scholarship about LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum has tended to focus on teachers’ perspectives and drawn on binaries such as presence/absence. Extending past research, this article describes the experiences of youth, primarily but not exclusively LGBTQ+ youth, with LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum with respect to intersecting identities and power relations, specifically, sexuality, gender
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Nurturing “A Specific Kind of Unicorn-y Teacher”: How Teacher Activist Networks Influence the Professional Identity and Practices of Teachers of Color Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Lynnette Mawhinney, Kira J. Baker-Doyle
ABSTRACT This article highlights the ways justice-oriented activist teachers of Color nurture themselves professionally through their involvement in critical professional development through activist teacher networks. This study conducted narrative inquiries of 26 activist teachers of Color across the United States. The counter-stories told by the teachers in this study reflect critical intellectual
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Enacting Antiracist Pedagogy: An Analysis of LeBron James and Doc Rivers’ Antiracist Discourse Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Brittany Jones, Joel Berends
In the summer of 2020, powerful protests against police brutality took place throughout the United States in response to the unlawful deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the ...