Abstract

The literature related to warm demanding describes teachers who balance care and authority to create a learning environment that supports a culture of achievement for African American students. Embedded in this stance is sociopolitical consciousness that explicitly links teachers’ care and authority with a larger social justice agenda. Drawing on interviews and online course assignments, we describe two preservice teachers’ conceptions and enactments of warm demanding in full-time elementary school internships in an African American elementary school. Findings reveal that although the preservice teachers communicated similar commitments to warm demanding, they enacted the stance differently, suggesting that while warm demanders share similar commitments, their practice may vary. The two cases highlight the promise of teacher education courses and field experiences to be structured in ways that promote the development of teacher aptitudes for strengthening equity and excellence in the education of an historically marginalized population of students.

Department

Education

Publication Date

1-11-2016

Journal Title

The Urban Review

Publisher

Springer

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/s11256-016-0350-4

Document Type

Article

Comments

This is an Author’s Original Manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11256-016-0350-4

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