UW–Madison’s Maxine McKinney de Royston is the lead author of an article published in the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), titled “‘I’m a Teacher, I’m Gonna Always Protect You’: Understanding Black Educators’ Protection of Black Children.”
The article, which McKinney de Royston co-authored with Tia C. Madkins (University of Texas at Austin), Jarvis R. Givens (Harvard University), and Na’ilah Suad Nasir (Spencer Foundation), highlights the perspectives of Black educators in the United States and shows how they “disrupt the racialized harm produced within schools to instead (re)position Black students as children worthy of protection via caring relationships, alternative discipline policies, and other interpersonal and institutional mechanisms,” according to the abstract.
The study has implications for teaching, teacher education, and how the “work” of teachers is conceptualized and researched.
McKinney de Royston is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Learn more about this important study and access the article, here.