UNC Chapel Hill

How Teachers Learn Racial Competency: The Role of Peers and Contexts

Constance A. Lindsay, Simone Wilson, Jacqueline Kumar, Tia Byers, Seth Gershenson. May 2024

Topics: Teacher and Leader Development

Tags: Race, ethnicity, and education, Educator perceptions

This paper investigates how teachers learn about race in the school context, with a particular focus on teachers’ development of racial competency. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews we find that teachers learn through three sources: from their peers, from years of experience, and from… more →
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Institutions: UNC Chapel Hill, American University