Book chapter
THE URBAN FACTOR: EXAMINING WHY BLACK FEMALE EDUCATORS TEACH IN UNDER-RESOURCED, URBAN SCHOOLS
Advances in race and ethnicity in education
01 Jan 2017
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Abstract
Prior to Brown v. Board of Education 1954, Black female educators played a significant and vital role in segregated schools. Despite Black female teachers' historic presence in the field of education, presently Black female teachers are disproportionately under-represented in the US teacher workforce. Acknowledging the shortage of Black female teachers in K-12 classrooms, the purpose of this qualitative study is to explore why Black female educators teach in under-resourced, urban schools. By examining Black female educators' initial draw to urban schools in what we conceptualized as the urban factor, we hope to reframe the implicit biases surrounding under-resourced, urban schools as less desirable workplaces and unearth reasons why those Black female teachers who enter teaching gravitate more toward urban schools. Three themes emerged about Black female teachers' thoughts on and preference for urban schools with an unexpected finding about Black female teachers' perceptions of student behavior. Concluding, recommendations are offered for policy and practice.
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- Title
- THE URBAN FACTOR: EXAMINING WHY BLACK FEMALE EDUCATORS TEACH IN UNDER-RESOURCED, URBAN SCHOOLS
- Creators
- Abiola Farinde-Wu - Univ Massachusetts, Coll Educ & Human Dev, Boston, MA 02125 USAAyana Allen-Handy - Drexel UniversityBettie Ray Butler - Univ N Carolina, Coll Educ, Dept Middle Secondary & K12 Educ, Charlotte, NC USAChance W. Lewis - Univ N Carolina, Coll Educ, Dept Middle Secondary & K12 Educ, Charlotte, NC USA
- Contributors
- A FarindeWu (Editor)A AllenHandt (Editor)C W Lewis (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Advances in race and ethnicity in education
- Series
- Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing; BINGLEY
- Number of pages
- 20
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000463479700005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85025443530
- Other Identifier
- 991019168261604721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Education & Educational Research
- Ethnic Studies
- Women's Studies