{"id":1002,"date":"2015-02-19T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2015-02-19T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:15:07","slug":"achieving-desire-narrative-of-a-black-male-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/achieving-desire-narrative-of-a-black-male-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving desire: Narrative of a black male teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James, C. E. (2002). Achieving desire: Narrative of a black male teacher.<em>International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education<\/em>,\u00a015(2), 171-186.<br \/>\nBased on a life history account of Craig Francis, a young black male teacher living and working in Toronto, Canada, this paper examines his route to teaching, his perceptions and understandings of what it means to be a teacher, and the role of race in his aspirations and experiences. Significant to this examination is the ways in which Craig makes sense of his experiences growing up in Canada as a black immigrant male, the circumstances and structural factors that have shaped his life and informed his choice of teaching as a career, and his perceptions of the opportunities and possibilities that teaching provides him. The evidence indicates that Craig constructs his role as a teacher in relation to his identity as an immigrant black male and his desire to influence the education system and make a contribution to his community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James, C. E. (2002). Achieving desire: Narrative of a black male teacher.International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education,\u00a015(2), 171-186. Based on a life history account of Craig Francis, a young black male teacher living and working in Toronto, Canada, this paper examines his route to teaching, his perceptions and understandings&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/achieving-desire-narrative-of-a-black-male-teacher\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[134,1012,1013,444,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-1002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-teaching-t","7":"tag-134","8":"tag-black-male-teacher","9":"tag-c-e-james","10":"tag-identity","11":"tag-race","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}