Do You See What I See? Fostering Aspiring Leaders' Racial Awareness

Autor/inn/en	Gooden, Mark A.; O'Doherty, Ann
Titel	Do You See What I See? Fostering Aspiring Leaders' Racial Awareness
Quelle	In: Urban Education, 50 (2015) 2, S.225-255 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0859
DOI	10.1177/0042085914534273
Schlagwörter	Administrator Education; Principals; Race; Autobiographies; Cultural Awareness; Racial Identification; Social Isolation; Family Influence; Racial Bias; Graduate Students; Culturally Relevant Education; Critical Theory; Racial Attitudes; Power Structure; Reflection; Social Action; White Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Principal; Schulleiter; Rasse; Abstammung; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Soziale Isolation; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Kritische Theorie; Rassenfrage; Soziales Handeln
Abstract	Programs preparing culturally responsive school leaders must address how race, power, and individual, institutional, and cultural racism impact beliefs, structures, and outcomes for students of color. To develop greater awareness of race, instructors in a principal preparation program assigned students in a primarily White cohort to compose racial autobiographies. Analysis of these racial autobiographies revealed early racial identity development impacted by racial isolation and family influence. The autobiographies included evidence of growing racial awareness and movement away from racial unconsciousness and colorblindness toward acknowledgment of privilege and commitment to future action. Racial autobiography serves as a useful tool to have students examine their own racial identity--a necessary first step toward building an awareness of race, privilege, and institutional and societal systems of racism and other forms of oppression. Further study will determine what changes in leadership practice, if any, might be attributed to this increased awareness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01