Never Too Young to Lead: Gifted African American Males in Elementary School

Bonner, Fred A.; Jennings, Michael

doi:10.4219/gct-2007-32

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“…The director of the undergraduate chapter at this university intentionally designed a summer and a yearlong retention program using high-achieving and gifted literature (Bonner, 2001(Bonner, , 2003(Bonner, , 2005Bonner & Jennings, 2007;Fries-Britt, 1997, 1998Fries-Britt & Turner, 2002;Harper, 2004Harper, , 2008. The program assumes that academic success is the outcome if all students are given equal chances to participate in programs that cultivate achievement.…”

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confidence: 99%

Engaging African American Males for Educational Success

Hughes¹

2010

Gifted Child Today

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Section: Observations Of the Programmentioning

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Engaging African American Males for Educational Success

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2010

Gifted Child Today

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“…For the purposes of this review, both demonstrated leadership and environments which support the development of leadership characteristics will be discussed. From the literature, there is an interesting relationship between leadership and giftedness, which was explored in Bonners' research on giftedness of African American male youth in elementary school [11] and high school [34] . An additional theme considering translating leadership skills to future contexts has implications for 'Life-Long Learning."…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[11,35] Organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, 100 Black Men of America, the Urban League, the National Society of Black Engineers, and many Black fraternities have established mentoring programs, which promote leadership development among Black male youth. [34] Woodland points out that benefits from positive and constructive mentoring relationship include decreases in first time drug users, school absenteeism, violent acts, and improvements in the behaviors of Black male youth in school and home.…”

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“…The Rites of Passage (RoP) programs will be a focal point for that discussion. [11,35] The NAE committee identified leaders in engineering as those who would "lead in shaping the ultimate use of technology and the government processes that control, regulate or encourage its use." With that perspective at the forefront, it is necessary to re-assert how historical leadership in the United States has been skewed to favor the racial majority.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In bold are the core search terms and in parenthesis, are the equivalent search terms. For each engineer of 2020 attributes, definitions and scholarship [11,12] informed the identification of proper synonyms. There was a separate search performed for each attribute.…”

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Engineer of 2020 Attributes and the Black Male Future Engineer: A Review of Literature

Tolbert

Cardella

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Historically, the United States of America has been an innovative and technically proficient forerunner. This position is threatened as the country's ability to develop competitive quantities of engineers, equipped to tackle the complex challenges of the future, has come under question. These challenges are wicked and unknown and will force engineers to use collaborate and use technical skills to solve social problems. With this in mind, the National Academies of Engineering launched the Engineer of 2020 project and charged its Committee on Engineering Education to develop a vision for engineering in 2020 and beyond. The Engineer of 2020 will be characterized by 10 attributes. The descriptions of these skills are vague; many institutions and organizations have characterized these attributes and created internal metrics by and through which they will develop these attributes in their students.Yet, it is not the university's sole responsibility to develop engineering attributes in future engineers. Before beginning college, students have vast experiences both through formal and informal education, which may have already begun to foster these attributes. Additionally, there is a cultural transmission of knowledge and experiences which may inculcate students with interest towards interests in STEM fields. Thus, this literature review will discuss the engineer of 2020 attributes as discussed in historical and contemporary literature related to African Americans/Blacks, with a focus on males and precollege informal learning contexts. In this literature mapping review, the terms Blacks and African Americans will be used interchangeably. This work can impact the engineering education and diversity research by spurring increased conversation and research investigations of cultural practices and activities from informal settings which may contribute to engineering attribute development. IntroductionThis work will offer an additional perspective on how researchers can explore connections between the engineer of 2020 (E2020) attributes and the lived experiences of African American communities, particularly of African American male youth. As engineering educators develop engineers, who represent different cultures, it is important to understand their lived experiences and the social and historical occurrences that might serve as foundations for those experiences. These lived experiences can help us understand the intersection between a Black male student's lived experience and his journey on the engineering pathway.Although Black males are earn only 4.8% of engineering degrees awarded [2] , their presence in the discipline provides evidence of their ability to succeed in the field. Often our American society and their educational environments challenge Black boys by placing unseen obstacles in their pathways. One such obstacle is the significance American society places on practices, values and norms of the White majority community. The practices, norms and practices of African American students is not welcomed, incl...

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