49.014 - Learning While Black: Perspectives on Supporting Culture, Heritage, and STEM Learning for African American Students

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Supporting culture and heritage are essential factors for quality schooling for African American students. In an effort to explore diverse epistemologies as they relate to notions of culture and heritage, it is necessary to focus on solution-oriented research, social policies, and academic programing. As such this session is centered on the work of Dr. Edmund W. Gordon. The session will use Gordon’s work to highlight how high achieving academic programs and social policies as related to funding can sustain quality education for African American students.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Debra Watkins, California Alliance of African American Educators

• Stephen D. Hancock, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Papers

• Correlates of High Academic Achievement - Edmund W. Gordon, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussants

• Arnetha F. Ball, Stanford University

• Debra Watkins, California Alliance of African American Educators

• Fred Blackwell, The San Francisco Foundation