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Quentin C. Sedlacek; Maricela León; Ian Grey; Jordan McLarty; Shanae Neal; Shanea Neal – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: African American Language (AAL) refers to a rich, widely used, and extensively researched language variety. Despite its importance, AAL remains widely stigmatized in the United States due to anti-Black linguistic racism. Many colleges offer courses with AAL content, and these courses have the potential to help disrupt anti-Black…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Teachers, Black Dialects, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Quentin C. Sedlacek; Catherine Lemmi; Kimberly Feldman; Nickolaus Ortiz; Maricela Leon – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Ideologies of language and race are deeply connected in the United States. Language practices associated with racially marginalized communities, such as African American Language (AAL) or Spanglish, are often heavily stigmatized. Such stigma is not grounded in empirical research on language, but rather in "raciolinguistic ideologies"…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Bias, Racism, Teacher Attitudes
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Danielle Marie Greene – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
This study investigates the role of African American Language (AAL) and *Standardized American English (*SAE) in Black/African American same-race teacher-student relationships. The teachers in this study (1) used AAL as a valuable tool for building rapport and trust with their students; (2) were aware of their positions as linguistic role models;…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, English, African American Culture
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Dennis L. Rudnick, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2024
"Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities" examines the ways in which divide-and-conquer strategies operate in the American public education system. In U.S. education, these mechanisms are endemic and enduring, if not always evident. Coordinated, strategic, well-funded, politically-viable campaigns…
Descriptors: Public Education, Ideology, Social Influences, Political Issues