In Search of Wholeness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction The Common Experience

   1. Introduction The Common Experience

      • Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

      Pages 1-8

3. The Salience of Race and Culture on Teachers and Teaching: Research and Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Multicultural Professional Development for African American Teachers

      • Gretcen McAllister

      Pages 11-31

   3. Black Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Professional Roles and Practices

      • Franita Ware

      Pages 33-45

   4. Does Race Matter?

      • Patricia M. Cooper

      Pages 47-63

4. The Stories of Culturally Responsive Teachers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. The Development Of Teacher Efficacy Beliefs

      • Gloria Harper Lee

      Pages 67-85

   3. The Influence of Professional Development on a Teacher’s Chancing Praxis

      • Kim Nesta Archung

      Pages 87-112

   4. Chasing Hope Through Culturally Responsive Praxis

      • Maria Leonora Lockaby Karunuñgan

      Pages 113-137

   5. African American Teachers’ Culturally Specific Pedagogy

      • Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

      Pages 139-146

   6. Responses from the Teachers

      • Beverley Cockerham, Vivian Stephens, Patricia White

      Pages 147-152

5. Back Matter

   Pages 153-192

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In Search of Wholeness: African American Teachers and their Culturally Specific Classroom Practices is a theoretical and practice-oriented treatment of how culture and race influence African American teachers. This collection of essays, edited by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, assumes that teachers cannot become fully functional persons and competent professionals if their cultural selves remain denied, hidden, and unexplored. Part one reviews the literature related to teachers' race and culture. Part two includes research studies about teachers confronting issues of culture and race in their personal and professional lives. The final chapter focuses on the responses of three of the teachers whose stories are portrayed in the book. In addition to the compelling case studies, other topics explored include: multicultural professional development for African American teachers, African American teachers' perceptions of their professional roles and practices, a comparison of effective black and white teachers of African American students, the development of teacher efficacy of an African American middle school teacher, the professional development journey of an effective African American elementary school teacher, seizing hope through culturally responsive praxis, collective stories on culturally specific pedagogy. In Search of Wholeness is an indispensable and groundbreaking collection that administrators, students, and educators of all ages will not want to be without.

• African American
• culture
• development
• perception
• race
• research
• school
• teaching
• treatment

"Grounded in research, case studies, and personal narratives, this remarkable book informs us how African American teachers' cultural experiences and ethnic identity influence their classroom practices. This book is essential reading for all educators interested in the recruitment, retention, and professional development of teachers of color." - Lisa D. Delpit, Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Educational Leadership, Georgia State University

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University. She is the recipient of countless awards, including the 2000 Dewitt-Wallace/American Educational Research Association Lecture Award.

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