Individual Article Reflection

Education 324
Fall 2016
Article Name: The Liberatory Consequences of Literacy

Date: 9/28/16

What is the article about? What challenge(s) or question(s) does it address?

Summary of the Article
This article supports the existence of an African connection and a cultural
consciousness, and uses them as a basis for understanding how the schooling
experience could and should be liberatory for African-American students. A case
study of a culturally relevant teacher illustrates effective teaching for African
Americans.
Questions and ideas addressed are: where the CCSS came from, what the CCSS
promises, the CCSS's strengths and weaknesses and how education professionals
could best respond to the challenges.
This article reminded me of
The book Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks by written by psychologist, Dr.
Robert L. Williams, who coined the term Ebonics, which discusses the African origin
of Ebonics and the validity and resilience of African culture through AfricanAmericans and why the preserved culture and history of language should be
considered when teaching ELA to African-American students.

This article made me wonder if.

The idea of a prescribed language like English in a nation that has never consisted
of one specific dialect or a concentrated background that originated from one
region, will ever be reconsidered when teaching African American students as it
causes them to recognize that population's initial origin and America's responsibility
for their part in the muddled journey through American ELA pedagogy.

The most important thing I want to share from this article

Prescriptive language is current American ELA pedagogy but descriptive language
denotes culture and annotates academic standards

How will this article impact my teaching?

I will encourage my African-American students not to be ashamed of their

descriptive language because it is the last non-aesthetic evidence of their origin.

Name: Celetta Hunter_