{"id":963,"date":"2015-02-19T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=963"},"modified":"2015-02-19T01:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:38:17","slug":"on-human-kinds-and-role-models-a-critical-discussion-about-the-african-american-male-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/on-human-kinds-and-role-models-a-critical-discussion-about-the-african-american-male-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"On Human Kinds and Role Models: A Critical Discussion about the African American Male Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brown, A. L. (2012). On Human Kinds and Role Models: A Critical Discussion about the African American Male Teacher.<em>Educational Studies<\/em>,\u00a048(3), 296-315.<\/p>\n<p>This article explores the theoretical implications around positioning the Black male teacher as the central agent of social change for Black male students. In addressing such concerns, my intention is not to discourage efforts to recruit and\u00a0retain\u00a0more African\u00a0American men\u00a0as teachers, but to trouble the commonsense assumptions embedded in such efforts. To achieve these goals, I draw from philosopher Ian Hacking&#8217;s (1995) notion of \u201chuman kinds\u201d to historicize the context in which Black male teachers emerged as possible role models for Black male students. To further illustrate this point, I draw data from interviews I conducted in a qualitative study. The Black male teachers cited in the interview section of this article provide a revised theorization of the dominant discourse about their\u00a0practice. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of this work for ongoing concerns about\u00a0the recruitment\u00a0and retention of Black male teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Access to full article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/254303932_On_Human_Kinds_and_Role_Models_A_Critical_Discussion_about_the_African_American_Male_Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown, A. L. (2012). On Human Kinds and Role Models: A Critical Discussion about the African American Male Teacher.Educational Studies,\u00a048(3), 296-315. This article explores the theoretical implications around positioning the Black male teacher as the central agent of social change for Black male students. In addressing such concerns, my intention&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/on-human-kinds-and-role-models-a-critical-discussion-about-the-african-american-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":[59,295,875,979,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-teaching-t","7":"tag-59","8":"tag-african-american-male-teachers","9":"tag-a-brown","10":"tag-human-kinds","11":"tag-recruitment-and-retention","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}