Toward affective language arts teaching: the utilization of culturally relevant literature on urban african american high school students

<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p> <strong>TOWARD AFFECTIVE LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHING:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>THE UTILIZATION OF CULTURALLY RELEVANT LITERATURE ON URBAN AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS</strong> </p> <p>by</p> <p>BARBARA-BENITA CRAFT</p> <p>August 2012</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Monte Piliawsky</p> <p>Major: Curriculum and Instruction</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> Data collected and analyzed from English Language Arts teachers in urban, metro-city, and suburban school districts related to the use and extent of use of culturally relevant pedagogy (Ladson-Billings, 1994a), culturally relevant literature (Ladson-Billings, 1994a), activities and strategies from African American familial culture (Hale-Benson, 1986), and cultural modeling (Lee, 1993), showed similarities and differences in the pedagogical practices and methodologies among the three teachers in the three school districts. Three teachers from each respective district, urban, metro-city, and suburban, were interviewed once, at the initiation of the study and again prior to exit, on their perspectives of teacher education, relationships with principals and Districts, teaching philosophies and styles, teaching pedagogies, curriculum and content, State and National Benchmarks and <em> Standards</em>, and their inclusion of culturally relevant elements in their lessons. The nine teachers, from the three school Districts were also observed in their classrooms during three separate observation periods. No students were observed or had data collected on them. Analysis of interview and observation content showed that of the nine</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Craft, Barbara Benita

Contributors dc:contributor

• Monte Piliawsky

• Arts, Culturally, Language, Literature, Pedagogy, Relevant
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Education

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https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/502

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oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1501