Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship |
Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship
Educational Researcher
Volume 41, Number 4 (May 2012)
Pages 115-120
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12440743
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Although education researchers understand that race is a problematic concept of spurious value, the concept persists in our research and scholarship. Each of the social sciences that contribute to the field of education has a history of racialized understandings that make their way to both our research and practice. Until we begin to carefully examine the way race and racialized thinking influence our work, we will continue to perpetuate destructive thinking about the capabilities of learners based on race.
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