Essay On African American Education

Cornel Pewwardly believe Indian children had a difficult time with education due to the fact of insert culture into the education, instead of inserting education in the culture (page2). The problem has been trying to connect students home culture and school. Including work in culturally appropriate, culturally congruent, culturally responsive, and culturally compatible. Erickson and Mohatt have try to find a discontinuity between students’ home experience and students school experience; comparing things like how students interact with their parents at home vs. how they interact with teachers and students at school. These sociolinguists have suggested that if students’ home language is incorporated into classroom, students are more likely to

Education was a primary probably in the 1960s (Civil Right Movement) for African Americans. African Americans needed help with boosting their self-esteem up. Teachers jobs were to produce academic excellence for their students. Teachers needed to reinsurance students that they could indeed do the work “feel good”. Culturally relevant teaching was the key academic excellence for students. For example, a teacher that goes by the name Ann Lewis, force a great deal of attention on a young African American boy in her classroom. Mrs. Lewis challenge the young boy to demonstrate academic power; the young boy took on the academic power and was able to become a role model for the other (African American) students in his classroom. Mrs. Lewis founded a way to value their skill and abilities and channel them in academically important ways (page 3). Culturally relevant teaching believe students should maintain some cultural integrity also. Fordham and Ogbu believed that African American go through point in live call “acting white”. In which African American students fear being ostracized by their peers for demonstrating interest in and succeeding in academic and other school relate tasks (page 4). Some believe that school is a hostile place and an