Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2022

Publication Title

Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME)

Volume

13

Issue

2

Pages

35751 (1-19 pp.)

Abstract

In light of the teacher shortage and increased emphasis on diversifying the educator workforce, the recruitment and retention of Black male educators is critical. The researchers focused on how these educators perceive their impact as role models and what others expect from them in K-12 contexts. The researchers administered questionnaires (N=38) and conducted interviews (N=11). Most educators considered themselves to be positive role models, especially for Black students. Expectations about their responsibilities as disciplinarians were positive unless imposed by race or at the expense of perceived academic skills. They needed to prove themselves with respect to academic qualifications. Interpersonal relationships were curtailed by their need for social distance, self-preservation, and dispelling stereotypes. Finally, educators described inequities, lack of support, and underrepresentation of Black males in their schools.

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Open Access Policy
The Editorial Board of the Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME) is committed to disseminating research and scholarship as widely as possible. As a result, JAAME is recognized as a gold open access journal (see Cabell’s), which means all literature published in JAAME is freely and immediately available on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself (Budapest Open Access Initiative, n.d.).

© 2022 Wallace et al. Open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.

Original Publication Citation

Wallace, D., Bol, L., Hall, K., & Cousins, E. (2022). Black male educators matter: Modeling and expectations in K-12 settings. Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME), 13(2), Article 35751. https://jaamejournal.scholasticahq.com/article/35751

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