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Paris, Django; Alim, H. Samy – Harvard Educational Review, 2014
In this article, Django Paris and H. Samy Alim use the emergence of Paris's concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as the foundation for a respectful and productive critique of previous formulations of asset pedagogies. Paying particular attention to asset pedagogy's failures to remain dynamic and critical in a constantly evolving global…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Sustainability, Heritage Education, Educational Practices
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Jayakumar, Uma M.; Vue, Rican; Allen, Walter R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this article, Uma Jayakumar, Rican Vue, and Walter Allen present their study of Young Black Scholars (YBS), a community-initiated college preparatory program in Los Angeles. Through in-depth interviews and surveys with twenty-five middle- and higher-income Black college students, they document the positive role of community in facilitating…
Descriptors: College Preparation, African American Students, Interviews, Surveys
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Tatum, Alfred W. – Harvard Educational Review, 2008
In this article, Alfred Tatum argues that the current framing of the adolescent literacy crisis fails to take into account the in-school and out-of-school challenges confronting many African American male adolescents today, particularly those growing up in high-poverty communities. Using the metaphor of literacy instruction as a human body, he…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Males