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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"deficit thinking"”.
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Challenging Deficit-Thinking Views About English Language Learners Utilizing Asset-Based Instruction
… explicit training on the historical contexts and deficit narratives that impact English language learners.
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Addressing the marginalized student: the secondary principal's role in eliminating deficit thinking
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A narrative portrait of Black teachers mitigating deficit thinking through culturally responsive professional learning
… study was developed in response to the deficit thinking Black students experience, which stems from the historical and ongoing racism in the United States. As result of receiving my K-12 education and teacher education in this country, it is no surprise that I, along with other Black …
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Culturally Responsive School Leadership Agility: A Journey Through Critical Self-Reflection
… of knowledge frameworks specific to deficit thinking. The Emergenetics Profile served as a lens to critically self-reflect in order to differentiate their approach to the disrupt deficit thinking practices in their schools (Browning 2007; Khalifa, 2018; Shields, 2018). This study …
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Study of collective efficacy in award winning schools in Illinois serving racially diverse elementary students
… that underlying belief systems such as deficit thinking may inform beliefs at the school level. My respondents came from eight elementary schools in three northern Illinois school districts serving increasingly diverse student populations. Results from phase 1 of the study provided a …
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Understanding Reading Challenges Among Black Boys: A Case Study of Third-Grade Title I Students
… access to interventions across grades, and deficit-based frameworks that students often internalize. The study concludes that literacy equity for Black boys requires a shift from deficit thinking to dignity-based support. Recommendations include centering student voice, adopting culturally …
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Quantitative analysis of contributing factors of career success and overall and academic resilience in higher education: A refinement of Tinto’s theory to stop Latinx oppression
… equitable educational environment, address the deficit thinking experiences lived by Latinx students while in college, and understand the way Latinx students see themselves when compared to their non-Latinx peers (self-deficit thinking). These were the main environmental factors influencing …
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High school teachers' stories of experiences with disciplinary literacy in their content area
… critical literacy learning that can disrupt the deficit thinking and position that students could find themselves in if those opportunities do not exist. Educators should strive to lead learners to grow as readers, thinkers, and members of a classroom, school, and community in which they live. By …
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Exploring the relationships between dialogue and inclusive school communities
… and student achievement and the impact of deficit thinking on dialogue in schools.
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Latino Immigrant Parents of English Language Learner Students, School Involvement and the Participation Breach
… practices, cultural misunderstandings and deficit-thinking models adopted by school personnel. The purpose of this Participatory Action Research (PAR) was to investigate the perceptions and benefits of participant and co-researcher parents who collaborated in the creation of an …
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When Good Intentions Aren't Good Enough: Dismantling Colonial Praxis in Educational Leadership
… as evidenced by the achievement gap discourse, deficit thinking, and unconscious bias. These factors lead to the over-representation of Indigenous students in lower academic streams and special education classes. Historical efforts to address these issues through decolonizing reforms at …
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A qualitative case study deconstructing teachers' decisions in the pre-active stage of teaching to illuminate considerations made for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge
… to instruction. However, the study revealed that deficit thinking and the pressures of standardization and curricular accountability had a more detrimental impact on teachers’ ability and willingness to implement 21st-century skills and knowledge into lessons, especially when the curriculum did …
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Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game
… teachers as workers, and (b) the racialized deficit discourse, a predominant framework in urban schools--often taken up by urban teachers--that blames poor urban youth and youth of color for school problems, constructs them as objects in need of control and correction, and misrepresents their …
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The impact of the quota-based system on social stratification among the students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
… along with the existence of various aspects of deficit thinking among QBS at IIT(M). Existence of social stratification within the institution also portrayed traces of stigma consciousness among QBS at the IIT(M). Based on the findings of this research, the co-existence of QBS and GCS along with …
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An exploration of the experiences of black high school students in the mathematics classroom: A qualitative study
… “achievement gap,” has been used to validate deficit thinking frameworks and portray Black students as unmotivated and deviant. This study suggests that it is necessary to change the national conversation of the achievement gap to one that Milner (2012) refers to as the opportunity gap.</p> …
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Closing The Gap: Greater Retention And Achievement Through Service-Learning At Wayne State University
… and creating programs and policies that rely on deficit thinking, the belief that a student’s demography, culture and familial context solely contribute to their low academic achievement. Instead, institutions should make changes that alter their approach to teaching and learning in order to …
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The Adjustment of First Year African American Women to Predominately White Institutions: Implications for Best Practices
… low-income peers is false and indicative of a deficit-thinking framework. This study provided valid examples of both first-generation and non-first generation students who needed the same resources as they progressed through their first year in college.</p>
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Navigating the cultural gaps: Whiteness and diversity in two elementary school classrooms
… how the participants grappled with the Deficit Thinking and White Knight Discourse models in their explicit and implicit forms. Understanding the social context in which they taught, the participants structured their classrooms and their interactions to address their students' academic …
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Learning from families experiencing homelessness—how school leaders can make a difference through transformative leadership
… and school iii leaders would be to reject deficit thinking by engaging in conversations about beliefs and biases to ensure all students receive an equitable education. A second recommendation for colleges and universities would be to promote the importance of developing relationships based …
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Negotiating theory and practice with preservice English/language arts teachers : an examination of burgeoning understandings and practices of multicultural education
… experience and develop a mindset that deflects deficit thinking. The second implication directly impacts teacher educators, calling on them to make the abstract theories studied in the university classroom more concrete and connected to the realities existing in schools. The third and final …
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