ERIC Number: EJ1296557
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-2005-615X
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"Teachers Don't Really Encourage It": A Critical Race Theory Analysis of High School Students' of Color Perceptions of the Teaching Profession
Marrun, Norma A.; Plachowski, Tara J.; Mauldin, De'Ana R.; Clark, Christine
Multicultural Education Review, v13 n1 p3-24 2021
Seeking to enhance efforts to diversify the teaching profession, this article centers the educational experiences of high school Students of Color. Using a Critical Race Theory framework, this study examines the relationship between Students' of Color school experiences and their perceptions of the teaching profession. Findings reveal that these students perceive the teaching profession as a boring, undervalued, and white profession, and that conversations about pursuing college and exploring a career in teaching are absent from the classroom or presented as only the purview of white students. Race conscious recommendations to encourage and support Students of Color to pursue college and to explore a teaching career are presented.
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, High School Students, Minority Group Students, Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Student Experience, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Diversity, Teacher Expectations of Students, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, White Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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