Reversing Deficit Thinking
Toward a Paradigm of Strength-Based Approaches to Educating African American Children
A volume in the series: Research on African American Education. Editor(s): Ronald D. Henderson, National Education Association. Carol Camp Yeakey, Washington University - St. Louis.
In this book, we suggest that much of the focus around educating African American children has been misplaced. We argue that, rather than focusing on the achievement gap and failures to educate and learn, attention needs to be paid to factors underlying successful achievement in this group. Furthermore, we will demonstrate that many of the factors that support successful academic achievement in African Americans were articulated many years ago by African American scholars and practitioners who worked under conditions of immense oppression. Finally, we will highlight contemporary scholarship that builds upon the work of these historical figures, and recommend that this would be a more fruitful avenue for research, policy and practice.
Thus, in this book, we combine the writings of historical pioneers in African American education, Booker T. Washington, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois and Carter G. Woodson with the research of current scholars on the same topic. This analysis is further buttressed by our own study of academically successful, African American students in an urban, public school district.
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Being on the Wrong Side of History: The Re-Segregation of Norfolk Public Schools (In Development)
Cultural Capital and Black Education: African American Communities and the Funding of Black
Surmounting all Odds: Equalizing Education Opportunities in the New Millennium (Vol 1 & 2)
The Broken Cisterns of African American Education: Academic Performance and Achievement in the Post-Brown Era
Towards a Brighter Tomorrow: The College Barriers, Hopes and Plans of Black, Latino/a and Asian American Students in California
Black Men in Black Colleges: Implications for Diversity, Recruitment, Support and Retention (In Development)
African Americans in Higher Education: Reflective Research, Racial Realities (In Development)
Living at the Intersections: Social Identities and Black Collegians (In Development)
Curators of the Legacy: An Exploration of the Role of Faculty and Staff at Black Colleges (In Development)
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