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Teacher responses to racist accusations and their relationship with black students
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Teacher responses to racist accusations and their relationship with black students
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Garcia
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Kathryn Lea
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1987-
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Kathryn Garcia
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Anne Gregory
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chair
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Boyd-Franklin
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Nancy Boyd-Franklin
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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Black students’ relationships with teachers are an integral part of their academic and personal growth. How teachers handle racially salient conflict likely affects the nature of this relationship. The current study systematically examined the range of teacher responses to Black students’ accusations of racism and whether type of response was linked to the quality of Black student-teacher relationships. The research sample included 28 predominately White teachers and 35 Black freshmen and sophomores from one high school surveyed during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years. On surveys, Black students rated the quality of their relationships with their teachers as measured by support and academic press scales. Teacher responses to accusations of racism were coded from transcripts of semi-structured teacher interviews. As hypothesized, the study found that the majority of teachers were accused of being racist by their students. Also as hypothesized, teachers responded in a variety of ways by a) dismissing the accusation entirely, b) dismissing the accusation but also asserting they treat all students fairly, or c) taking the accusation seriously by engaging the student in a discussion about the accusation. In light of these results, schools need to provide training to teachers on the presence of racism in the classroom and potential ways to respond. That said, the study did not find that the type of teacher response to accusations of racism was linked to the quality of Black student-teacher relationship, as had been hypothesized. Specifically, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) did not support the hypothesis that teachers who prevented racist accusations altogether or engaged students, compared to those teachers who were dismissive, would have higher quality relationships with their Black students—as reported on student surveys. However, given that the HLM estimates were in the expected direction, future research might detect the hypothesized association with a larger sample of teachers.
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (ix, 75 p. : ill.)
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Psy.D.
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by Kathryn Lea Garcia
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School Psychology
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Race discrimination
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Discrimination in education--United States
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African American students
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2014-06-25 11:59:46
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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