ERIC Number: EJ1196912
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Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 30
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Mo' Data, Mo' Problems: Making Sense of Racial Discipline Disparities in a Large Diversifying Suburban High School
Irby, Decoteau Jermaine
Educational Administration Quarterly, v54 n5 p693-722 Dec 2018
Purpose: This article explores the effects of sensemaking interventions on a group of educators' race-conscious problem analysis of racial discipline disparities. Research Method: I conducted this research in a predominantly White diversifying suburban high school that served roughly 1,600 students. To understand how sensemaking interventions shaped teachers' racial ways of knowing, I conducted an ethnographic content analysis of 14 transcribed teacher focus group and data retreat exchanges to identify conversational patterns related to their problem framings. Findings: I found that providing diverse data types reflecting a range of racial perspectives offered cues that enabled organizational members to notice and (partially) disrupt the personal and organizational racism and race-evasive tendencies that drive the reproduction of racial inequities in school discipline. Implications for Research and Practice: Offering teachers sensemaking opportunities that prompt collective racial awareness and critical self-reflection can instigate shifts in racial ways of knowing that are critical to understanding and addressing discipline culture and climate problems in racially diversifying schools.
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Discipline, Suburban Schools, High Schools, Race, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers, Racial Discrimination, Leadership
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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