"Issa Vibe": Partnering With Latino Male Urban Youth to Unpack Care-full Teaching

• In Event: Latinx Teachers: Using Culture and Language to Uplift

Abstract

While research has documented the saliency of teacher care for Latinx youth (Valenzuela, 1999; Garza, 2009, 2010; 2014), further attention is needed to unpack what care-full teaching specifically means for Latino male students whose academic whose proportional academic attainment continues to lag behind that of their White, Asian, and African American peers (The Schott Foundation, 2015) as well as of their Latina female counterparts (Gándara, 2017; Sáenz & Ponjuán, 2009).To this end, this qualitative study seeks to amplify the voices of 10 Latino male youth in one New York City public high school as they describe the practices of three White male teachers that they identify as caring.

Author

• Kelly Gavin Zuckerman, Bryn Mawr College