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Publication Date: 2024
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Conceptualizing Possibilities for Black Boys through the Educational Continuum
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v37 n6 p1720-1735 2024
This article conceptualizes "possibilities" as a challenge to the ways that Black boys are constructed and arrested through their engagement in educational spaces. Critical race scholars have deployed counter-stories to disrupt deficit framing of Black boys by discussing their possibilities, promise, and potential. Similarly, we weave these insights and analyses of Black boys' lives to identify how multiple possibilities contribute to Black boys' thriving in education. The seven dimensions of the Possibilities Framework include dreaming (related to aspirations and fantasy), caring (e.g., cared for and cared about), belonging (related to mattering and feeling connected), enjoying (related to joy), agency (their actions and autonomy), protecting (feeling safe), and affirming (related to being valued). Each of these dimensions can inform pedagogy and praxis and empower Black boys and young men in educational settings.
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, Cultural Capital, Aspiration, Caring, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Personal Autonomy, Safety, Values, Culturally Relevant Education, Racism, Gender Bias
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