Lynnette Mawhinney Libri

Developing a more culturally diverse teaching force is one of the most important tasks facing the education system in the United States. Yet, in the midst of this challenge, little is known about who these teachers might be or where they might come from. We Got Urban Education and the Next Generation of Black Teachers illustrates the journeys that Black pre-service teachers travel in their attempts to become educators. By looking at their educational life histories – their schooling experiences, teaching philosophies, and personal motivation – this book discovers what compels them to become teachers and the struggles and successes they encounter along the way. With texture and care, We Got Next helps professionals, policymakers, and teacher educators to understand what draws young African Americans toward the teaching profession and how to help them get there.

Lulu loves her family, but people are always asking, What are you? Lulu hates that question. Her brother inspires her to come up with a power phrase so she can easily express who she is, not what she is.

There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the teachers themselves. Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with former teachers, the authors identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why teachers so often willingly leave the classroom.  Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword Introduction: Walking in Through the Out Door: Professional Trajectories of Urban Teachers PART I: The Dynamics of Teacher Attrition 1          Push and Pull in Career Development PART II: Structural Factors in Teacher Attrition 2          The Struggle is Real: Administrators, Teachers, and The System 3          Wading Through the Waters: Exhaustion, Stress, and Disillusionment with Teaching 4          Where Has All the Job Security Gone? PART III: The Personal and the Professional in Teacher Attrition 5          You Don't Fit Here: Teachers of Color Coping with Racial Microaggressions in Schools 6          Negotiating Gendered and Cultural Expectations on a Teacher's Salary: The Mediating Role of Identity 7          I Just Feel So Guilty: The Role of Emotions in Leaving PART IV: Addressing Teacher Attrition 8          Closing the Revolving Door: Teacher Leavers' Final Lesson for the Profession Acknowledgments Bibliography Index  

Discover Mamie Phipps Clark, a psychologist and civil rights activist whose research on racial identity development played a vital role in the Brown v. Board of Education case.