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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Curriculum and Instruction
First Advisor
Jennifer Lewis
Abstract
Black males in urban schools typically perform below their White peers academically, leading educational researchers to seek effective instructional activities to help close this achievement gap. One way to improve the academic attitudes and behaviors of Black males is to strengthen the relationships between teachers and students through the Ignatian concept of care applied in Jesuit schools, as relationships play a pivotal role in teaching and learning and in the application of culturally relevant and Ignatian pedagogies. This qualitative study, through interviews of teachers and students in one urban area Jesuit Catholic high school with an all-male, predominately Black population, explores how care is expressed by teachers and experienced by students and its impact on academic attitudes and behaviors of the students. The findings of the study suggest that care is present in the classrooms of the school and infuses all corners of the educational relationship triangle. The findings also imply that the teachers are operationalizing elements of culturally relevant pedagogy.
Recommended Citation
Marz, Therese M., "Operationalizing Care In A Jesuit Catholic Urban High School" (2024). Wayne State University Dissertations. 4025.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/4025
