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THERESA PERRY
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Associate Professor of Education
Vice President for Community Relations
Wheelock College
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Research Areas:
African American achievement, teacher education, African American language, culturally responsive teaching practices, and school/college partnerships
Current Research
An examination of the relationship between the organizational habitus of an institution and the creation of African American students’ social identities as achievers. An empirical study of how schools and programs develop African American students’ self-understanding as achievers.
Selected Publications
• Perry, T. (Ed.) (Forthcoming, fall 2005). Educating African American students: What teachers, parents and community organizers should know.
• Perry, T. (Ed.) (Forthcoming, spring 2005). Black vernacular culture and adolescent literacy: A Collection of Writings.
• Perry, T., Steele, C. & Hilliard II, A. (2003). Young gifted and Black: Promoting high achievement among African American students. Boston: Beacon.
• Perry, T. & Delpit, L (Eds.). (1998). The real Ebonics debate: Power, language, and the education of Black children. Boston: Beacon.
• Perry, T. (Ed.) (1996) Teaching Malcolm X. New York: Routledge.
• Perry, T. & Fraser, J. W. (Eds.). (1993) Freedom's Plow, Teaching in the multicultural classroom. New York: Routledge. |
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