On the Record: Black Women Agricultural Science Teachers on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 10:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Historically Grounded Intersectional Analysis of Race and Gender (Table 13)

Abstract

Black women within the field of agricultural education have been an overlooked population of teachers. As agricultural education continues to struggle to recruit and retain students and teachers with marginalized identities, the need to explore why increases. Within the broader field of agricultural education, multicultural education has been argued as a way to increase the cultural awareness of agricultural science teachers. However, that has continued to fail. Within this study we examine how Black women conceptualize the tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy. We found themes that are salient across the findings of over 30 years of research within the broader agricultural field. With agricultural education, Black women are finally given the mic.

Authors

• Kendrick Spencer, Missouri State University

• Hannah H. Scherer, Virginia Tech

• Stefanie L. Marshall, Michigan State University

• Brett Milliken, Virginia Tech