Parenting and Cultural Socialization as Predictors of African American Children’s Science and Social Studies Achievement

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire E Baker
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Elizabeth Vickery

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This qualitative multiple case study utilizes a Black feminist ethic of caring (Collins, 2009; Thompson, 1998) to explore how three African American women social studies teachers draw on their personal and community knowledge to conceptualize and teach the construct of citizenship to their students of color. Instead of conveying traditional notions of citizenship that value blind patriotism to the nation-state and individualism, they instead chose to teach citizenship as relational and centered on uplifting their cultural community. This study hopes to shed light on how critical notions of citizenship may be presented and utilized in classrooms.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>


2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Tyler ◽  
Monica L. Dillihunt ◽  
A. Wade Boykin ◽  
Sean T. Coleman ◽  
Darla M. Scott ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ardillah Abu

ABSTRACK This study aims to determine (i) The Effect of Parents' Attention on Social Studies Student Achievement at SDN 130 Karambua. (ii) The Effect of Learning Independence on Social Studies Learning Achievement of Students at SDN 130 Karambua. (iii) Effects of Parental Attention and Learning Independence together on Social Studies Achievement of Students at SDN 130 Karambua, Rinjani Village, Wotu District. This type of research is expost facto. Data analysis used was a simple regression analysis technique for the first and second hypotheses and multiple regression analysis for the third hypothesis. Before analyzing the data, an analysis of the requirements for testing is carried out including: normality, homogeneity, independent t test and linearity test The results of this study are: (i) There is a positive and significant influence of Parents' Attention on Social Studies Student Achievement at SDN 130 Karambua, with rx1y = 0.516; r2x1y = 0.266; and tcount is greater than ttable, namely: 3.85> 1.701. (ii) There is a positive and significant influence of Learning Independence on Social Studies Achievement of Students in SDN 130 Karambua, with rx2y = 0.372; r2x2y = 0.138; and tcount is greater than ttable, namely: 2.119> 1.701. (iii) There is a positive and significant influence of Parental Attention and Learning Independence together on Social Studies Achievement of Students in SDN 130 Karambua, with Ry (1,2) = 0.631; R2y (1,2) = 0.398; and Fcount is greater than Ftable namely: 5.542> 3.35 at a significance level of 5%. The regression line equation Y = 0.615X1 + -0.252X2 + 51.198.


Author(s):  
Ian Rocksborough-Smith

A 1942 banquet honored Chicago’s public school superintendent William Johnson for his attention to a proposed reform of local social studies curricula concerning African American history. On this occasion, Johnson met with South Side schoolteacher Madeline Morgan, an advocate of local black public history. Morgan had devised these curriculum reforms as units for grades 1 through 8. Morgan (later Stratton Morris) taught at Emerson Primary School. In the nearly two years prior to the banquet and at the behest of the district, Morgan and a small team of colleagues had devised history units that would underscore the crucial role African Americans played in the nation’s history from slavery through emancipation and into the twentieth century. From the perspective of those who honored Johnson, his presence at the banquet was more than just a trivial photo opportunity. The banquet was attended by more than three hundred people and sponsored by local middle-class black women’s clubs and civic organizations. Beyond the adulation afforded Johnson, the banquet also recognized the labors of public schoolteachers like Morgan and those of other African American public-history activists and educators who through the 1940s and 1950s sought to revise local curricula to include significant modules on black American history....


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