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Understanding How Educators Interact With and Inform Adolescents’ Ethnic-Racial Identities

Sat, April 13, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 3

Session Type: Symposium

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Adolescents’ interactions and learning within their schooling contexts inform their exploration of and meaning making around their ethnic-racial identity (ERI). Although educators can positively support their students’ ERI, their behaviors can also damage their ERIs. The four papers in this symposium draw on teacher and student perspectives from different school contexts to illustrate the variety of ways that educators can understand, interact with, and inform their students’ ERIs. Schooling contexts are predisposed to harm the psychological and academic development of ethnoracially minoritized youth, but often remain silent or stifle conversation about ERI in classrooms and in teacher training. These studies offer insights that could be leveraged for more inclusive classroom environments and effective teacher training that support adolescents’ positive development.

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