{"id":1080,"date":"2015-02-20T01:43:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2015-02-20T01:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T01:43:01","slug":"the-method-in-the-madness-african-american-males-avoidance-schooling-and-chaos-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/the-method-in-the-madness-african-american-males-avoidance-schooling-and-chaos-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The method in the madness: African American males, avoidance schooling, and chaos theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polite, V. C. (1994). The method in the madness: African American males, avoidance schooling, and chaos theory.\u00a0<em>Journal of Negro Education<\/em>, 588-601.<br \/>\nThe social context of schooling is examined, drawing on a case study of 115 African-American boys attending a metropolitan high school 1986-1989, using chaos theory developed in quantum physics, documented changes at the school 1970-1990, school\u00a0progress\u00a0records, &amp; on-site observations. Two central assumptions of chaos theory were explored: (1) seemingly minor &amp; remote conditions within or outside a system can have profound consequences for the system (the &#8220;butterfly effect&#8221;), &amp; (2) phenomena are best understood by examining the interrelationships of the components rather than the components themselves. In the students&#8217; case, seemingly insignificant actions (eg,\u00a0class\u00a0disruptions, physical fights), policies, &amp; procedures (eg, course selection) contributed to poor academic preparation, schooling avoidance, &amp; an overall chaotic school environment. Parents of black males had abandoned their role in education, students had peer pressure to resist schooling, teachers &amp; counselors did not demonstrate caring, &amp; administrators did not display leadership. These conditions had a nonlinear effect on the poor academic achievement of the black youth. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 23 References. M. Pflum<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2967297<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polite, V. C. (1994). The method in the madness: African American males, avoidance schooling, and chaos theory.\u00a0Journal of Negro Education, 588-601. The social context of schooling is examined, drawing on a case study of 115 African-American boys attending a metropolitan high school 1986-1989, using chaos theory developed in quantum physics,&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/the-method-in-the-madness-african-american-males-avoidance-schooling-and-chaos-theory\/\" 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":[3],"tags":[20,1099,154,1100,1101],"class_list":{"0":"post-1080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-achievement-ac","7":"tag-20","8":"tag-chaos-theory","9":"tag-high-school","10":"tag-school-environment","11":"tag-vernon-polite","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}