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The Social Funding of Race: The Role of Schooling (Understanding Social…
The Social Funding of Race:
The Role of Schooling
Understanding Social Funding
Fully Funded: total investment of society to a given subject
Students learn explicitly and implicitly about the value of education just like they do for race
Literacy is fully funded
"Generational change in the conceptualization of race is similar to change occurring in the retirement system."- Went from public matter to a private matter
We think in dichotomous terms regarding race; blurs the line between racist and non-racist
There are aspects to schooling that further solidify race, especially within social mobility opportunities
Access to Equal Education
Curriculum
Schools with less resources provide "marginalized knowledge" to their students and distorts the social reality of our world
Should incorporate more than just the single dominant story, by including 'multicultural' viewpoints would create a more inclusive perspective/worldview
Instruction
Fuels social funding of race through the extent teachers add to/interrupt messages of racial discourse
Resources that include multicultural perspectives are used as examples of long-ago, no longer relevant examples or send a message (intentionally or not) about character flaws
"Low ability groups" typically based on socioeconomic status
Students of minority groups are more likely to be taught by less-experienced teachers
Discipline/Classroom Managment
African American students are significantly more likely to be suspended/expelled for "non-contact" matters- they are held to a higher expectation of compliance than white students
Assessment
Standardized testing continues to be the main form of measurement for student success yet it doesn't take into account the different challenges/ experiences that students are exposed to
"Stereotype threat" plays a role- in a study where the control group was told the test measured intellectual ability African American students performed at much lower than the intervention group who were told the test was not a measure of intellect
What's a Teacher Educator to do?
Issue: teachers are given a curriculum (structural) that must be followed to a certain degree; teachers typically are only exposed to individual students for a limited period of time.
Funding of race still occurs without structural boundaries- result of how society conducts itself
Many teachers are required to have a Master's degree which further inhibits schools with lower funding to access higher-quality teachers
Teachers are expected to denounce the concept of race when they are using it by grouping students
Only way to escape the concept of race may be through metaphors- use language of the people oppressing you so that they can begin to understand your viewpoint
Teachers should talk about race and expose it for the purpose it services in American culture