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Linguistic Artistry and Flexibility in Dual-Language Bilingual Classrooms: Young Black Children's Language and Literacy Practices
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Frieson, Brittany L.; Scalise, Makenzi – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
Drawing on translanguaging and raciolinguistics frameworks in an ethnographic case study, this article contextualizes how young Black American children engage in rich literacy practices to validate their cultural and linguistic identities in an elementary, two-way immersion bilingual program. Findings demonstrated that despite teachers' perceived…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American Culture, Cultural Influences, Black Dialects
"Hey, Black Child. Do You Know Who You Are?" Using African Diaspora Literacy to Humanize Blackness in Early Childhood Education
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Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania; Smith, Mukkaramah – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This article examines the partnership between a teacher and teacher educator disrupting a colonized early childhood curriculum that fosters a dominance of whiteness by replacing it with the beauty and brilliance of Blackness. We explore the following research question: "What are the affordances of teaching from an Afrocentric stance in a…
Descriptors: African American Children, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Collaboration, Culturally Relevant Education
School Teacher Perceptions of Barriers that Limit the Participation of African American Males in Public School Gifted Programs
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Hargrove, Brenda H.; Seay, Sandra E. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2011
This study used data from questionnaires completed by teachers employed in North Carolina schools (N = 370) to determine if teachers felt that non-school-related or school-related factors served as barriers that limited the number of African American male children from participating in gifted programs. The majority of the teachers taught 3rd- to…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academically Gifted, Minority Group Teachers, School Personnel