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Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching about African American Language in College Classrooms
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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
African American Language in Science Education: A Translanguaging Perspective
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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
'It's Just How We Articulate the Blackness in Us': African American Teachers, Black Students, and African American Language
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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
Challenging Anti-Black Linguistic Racism in Schools amidst the 'What Works' Agenda
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Cushing, Ian – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Education policy in England's schools is driven by the 'what works' agenda, characterised by interventions claiming to be scientifically objective and evidence-led. In this article I show how what works interventions reproduce anti-Black linguistic racism because to be perceived as someone who is 'working', racialised children must assimilate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Blacks, Racial Composition
Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Teacher Education: Centering Black Epistemologies to (Re)Construct Elementary Language Arts Education for Linguistic and Racial Justice
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Jasmyn Kymberly Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black students and their linguistic resources are undervalued, disdained, disrespected, and disregarded in language arts classrooms. Not only is Black Language often ignored in English language arts instruction, but language more generally remains largely hidden within elementary ELA. Elementary ELA educators are tasked with teaching a vast array…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racism, Language Arts, Black Dialects
Demythologizing the Inner-City Child.
Granger, Robert C., Ed.; Young, James C., Ed. – 1976
This collection of papers from a conference sponsored by Georgia State University addresses a variety of issues and myths regarding inner-city children. Chapters deal with: (1) the educational theory of W.E.B. DuBois; (2) the explicit and implicit meaning of demythologizing the inner-city child; (3) the education of inner-city children; (4)…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Education, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development