Brooklyn Forsgren

Google Scholar Assignment

February 9, 2018

PART A

Article # 1:
Author’s Name: Terrie Epstein & Conra Gist
Title: Teaching racial literacy in secondary humanities classrooms: challenging adolescents’ of
color concepts of race and racism
Year: 2013
Journal: Race Ethnicity and Education- Volume 18; Pages 40-60
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2013.792800

Article # 2:
Author’s name: Conra D. Gist
Title: A culturally responsive counter-narrative of effective teaching
Year: 2014
Journal: Cultural Studies of Science Education- Volume 9; Pages 1009-1014
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11422-013-9537-0

Summary of “A culturally responsive counter-narrative of effective teaching”:

In her article “A culturally responsive counter-narrative of effective teaching,” Dr. Conra Gist
discuses the effectiveness of culturally responsive teaching and the importance of sociocultural
consciousness. There is a reform called the Teacher Effectiveness Movement that is created for
better teacher assessment in order to get inadequate teachers out of the classroom. It is important
for teachers to know the cultural backgrounds of their students in order to connect with them and
understand them better. Dr. Gist gives a scenario in which a black female student is upset in
class, because she is afraid she will not be able to attend Vanderbilt University. The teacher in
the scenario addresses the upset student by telling the whole class a story with an ending point
that black students are the “promise” of their region and that they need to work hard and push
through. This scenario gives a great example of racial consciousness in the classroom. I have had
the privilege to take a class from Dr. Gist and she cares deeply about race in the classroom, as
shown in this article, and is an extremely inspiring woman. I was excited to see that I was
assigned to research her articles.

Article #3:
Author’s Name: Conra D. Gist
Title: The Culturally Responsive Teacher Educator
Year: 2013
Journal: The Teacher Educator- Volume 49; Pages 265-283
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08878730.2014.934129
PART B

Article #1:
Author’s Name: Frances A. Campbell, Craig T. Ramey, Elizabeth Pungello, Joseph Sparling,
Shari Miller-Johnson
Title: Early Childhood Education: Young Adult Outcomes From the Abecedarian Project
Year: 2010
Journal: Applied Developmental Science- Volume 6: Pages 42-57
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S1532480XADS0601_05

Article #2:
Author’s Name: Joan Packer Isenberg & Nancy Quisenberry
Title: A Position Paper of the Association for Childhood Education International PLAY:
Essential for all children
Year: 2012
Journal: Childhood Education- Volume 79; Pages 33-39
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.2002.10522763

Article #3:
Author’s Name: Neil Postman
Title: The Disappearance of Childhood
Year: 2012
Journal: Childhood Education- Volume 61; Pages 286-293
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.1985.10520201?journalCode=uced20

Summary of “The Disappearance of Childhood”:

In his article, “The Disappearance of Childhood,” Neil Postman discusses how the idea of
childhood is disappearing in North Amierca. He argues that media, especially television, is
taking away all of the aspects of childhood that once were. He says that childhood is not a
“biological” time of life but a social concept that every child should experience. However,
Postman does not believe that childhood has been around forever. He believes that it has only
been around for about 150-200 years, because of the hard life that children used to have. Before
the technology age, children played outside with friends and were able to use their imaginations.
Today, there is a decline of children who still do those things.