Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Caruthers-Jackson, Sarah Ann
Author's Email Address	sjackson@fccj.edu
URN	etd-10282008-093357
Title	Cradle To Third Life: An Autobiography of an African-American Science Educator
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Middle and Secondary Education, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Nancy T. Davis Committee Chair Alejandro J. Gallard Committee Member Penny J. Gilmer Committee Member Jeffery Milligan Outside Committee Member
Keywords	Educating the African-American Students Segregated Classroom Practices Segregated Education
Date of Defense	2008-05-22
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Cradle To Third Life: An Autobiography Of An African-American Science Educator This inquiry used reflective autobiographical research to reveal my beliefs, values, and practices of science teaching by using participatory action research with two African- American students of my science tutoring organization, Kollege Kampus. I audiotaped two African-American students’ tutoring sessions along with students’ and researcher’s journals to understand my values. Using Beck and Cowan’s (1996), Spiral Dynamics’ value chart, my values became clear allowing me to transform my practice and therefore ways of being in the world. Also, I conducted an ethnographic inquiry using an Afrocentric lenses to interview three segregated public school African-American teachers to understand how my early schooling experiences influenced my beliefs, values, and science practices. I merge the lenses of action research, ethnography inquiry, and the literature to understand my values and belief and their origins. From my action research I understood my beliefs and values of teaching science to African-American students. The findings from the ethnography inquiry indicate that this researcher’s beliefs and values were similar to those of her segregated teachers. Therefore, the findings indicate the origin of my science beliefs, values, and practices originated during my K-12 public segregated schooling (1942-1954) at Monitor in Fitzgerald, Georgia.
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