Vol 2, No 1 – JAAME Special Issue

Prefatory

The Decision: Maximizing our Positions within the Academy to Improve Educational Outcomes of African American Males (433)

Chance W. Lewis, Endowed Chair & Associate Professor of Urban Education at Texas A&M University

JAAME Special Issue- Vol 2, No 1 (2011)

Guest Editor: Dr. Brian L. Wright, TERC

Introduction to the Special Issue

K-16 and Beyond: African American Male Student Engagement in STEM Disciplines (888)

Brian L. Wright, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at TERC

Part I: Mathematics Education

Counter Narratives: Examining the Mathematical and Racial Identities of Black Boys who are Successful with School Mathematics (835)

Robert Q. Berry, III, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Virginia; Kateri Thunder, Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics Education, University of Virginia; Oren L. McClain, Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics Education, University of Virginia

On Defense: African American Males Making Sense of Racialized Narratives in Mathematics Education (481)

Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Niral Shah, Doctoral Student, University of California, Berkeley

From the Hood to Being Hooded: A Case Study of a Black Male PhD (782)

Ebony O. McGee, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago; Danny Bernard Martin, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science & Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois

Part II: Science Education

Droppin' Science and Dropping Science: African American Males and Urban Science Education (489)

Christopher Emdin, Associate Professor Science Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

"Seeing as Sound Travels Everywhere": African American Boys Learning to "See" Transmission through the Analysis of Invented Representations (462)

Christopher G. Wright, Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University

Navigating Interculturality: African American Male Students and the Science Classroom (445)

Beth Warren, Co-Director of The Chèche Konnen Center, TERC, Inc; Ann S. Rosebery, Co-Director of The Chèche Konnen Center, TERC, Inc

National Science Foundation - Sponsored Colloquy on Minority Males in STEM (435)

Norman L. Fortenberry, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education, National Academy of Engineering; Catherine J. Didion, Senior Program Office for the National Academy of Engineering; Beth T. Cady, Program Officer for the National Academy of Engineering; Wei Jing, Research Associate for the National Research Council; Simil L. Raghavan, Associate Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering

JAAME would like to express its gratitude to Brian Wright who served as the guest editor for this special issue on STEM. Please see  About Dr. Wright to learn more about his work.