Threatened and Placed at Risk: High Achieving African American Males in Urban High Schools

Autor/in	McGee, Ebony O.
Titel	Threatened and Placed at Risk: High Achieving African American Males in Urban High Schools
Quelle	In: Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 45 (2013) 4, S.448-471 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0972
DOI	10.1007/s11256-013-0265-2
Schlagwörter	High Achievement; At Risk Students; Resilience (Psychology); Males; African American Students; Urban Schools; Charter Schools; Mathematics Achievement; High School Students; Secondary School Mathematics; Phenomenology; Student Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Studienerfahrung
Abstract	This study investigated the risk and protective factors of 11 high-achieving African American males attending 4 urban charter high schools in a Midwestern city to determine what factors account for their resilience and success in mathematics courses, and in high school more generally. This research was guided by a Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory, which assisted in extrapolating how these young Black males make sense of their experiences despite the many challenges they face growing up in urban Black America. Results indicate that although students were under multiple forms of academic and physical threat within and beyond school walls, there was a keen presence of academic agency and an ability to manage potentially threatening situations to cleverly protect themselves from complex systems of risk. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10