The Ann Arbor Decision: The Importance of Teachers' Attitudes toward Language

Autor:	Evelyn B. Freeman
Rok vydání:	1982
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Desegregation Pedagogy Population Standard English Primary education Language barrier Ethnolinguistics Psychology education School system Education Adjudication
Zdroj:	The Elementary School Journal. 83:41-47
ISSN:	1554-8279 0013-5984
DOI:	10.1086/461291
Popis:	The landmark U.S. district court decision Martin Luther King, Jr., Elementary School Children v. Ann Arbor School District Board in July 1979 established the importance of teachers' attitudes toward language. Judge Charles Joiner upheld the claim of eleven black parents that the school system failed to take "their children's spoken dialect into account and it failed to teach them to read Standard English" (Kossack 1980, p. 617). The judge further stated that the language barrier is not black English itself, but rather teacher attitudes, which cause black English speakers to feel inferior (Kossack 1980). With the desegregation of many large school systems and the increased mobility within society, more and more teachers will be instructing children whose linguistic heritages may differ from their own. In addition, as the Spanish-speaking population continues to grow, more educational settings are becoming bilingual/bicultural. In light of these current education trends, teachers' attitudes toward language have become a timely and important issue. The purposes of this article are to describe the Ann Arbor decision, to review current
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