{"title":"School Counselors Addressing Racial Disparities in Education Among African American Students Through an Intersectional Lens: A Conceptual Framework","authors":"Angel Dowden, Tyreeka Williams, Shavonne Oliver","doi":"10.1007/s10447-024-09543-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In K-12 public school settings, African American students experience racial disparities impacting their academic outcomes, career readiness, and social-emotional wellness (Bottiani et al. in <i>Journal of Educational Psychology,</i> <i>109</i>(4), 532–545, 2017). To ensure equitable outcomes for these students, school counselors should view them through an intersectional lens, embracing their distinct hierarchical positions in comparison to their counterparts. As social justice change agents, school counselors model transformative leadership in an attempt to minimize racial, systemic, and institutional disparities experienced amongst this population (Cobb, 2019). The manuscript aims to provide practical interventions for school counseling leaders through the efforts of advocacy, data analysis, and systemic change.</p>","PeriodicalId":46561,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COUNSELLING","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COUNSELLING","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-024-09543-6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In K-12 public school settings, African American students experience racial disparities impacting their academic outcomes, career readiness, and social-emotional wellness (Bottiani et al. in Journal of Educational Psychology,109(4), 532–545, 2017). To ensure equitable outcomes for these students, school counselors should view them through an intersectional lens, embracing their distinct hierarchical positions in comparison to their counterparts. As social justice change agents, school counselors model transformative leadership in an attempt to minimize racial, systemic, and institutional disparities experienced amongst this population (Cobb, 2019). The manuscript aims to provide practical interventions for school counseling leaders through the efforts of advocacy, data analysis, and systemic change.
期刊介绍:
The International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling is published under the auspices of the International Association for Counselling. It promotes the exchange of information about counselling activities throughout the world. The Editorial Board is committed to working with diverse authors from varied backgrounds to meet the publication standards for the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, including assistance with organization, structure, and style for publication. The journal publishes conceptual, practical, and research contributions that provide an international perspective on the following areas:
Theories and models of guidance and counselling;
Counsellor education and supervision;
State of the art reports on guidance and counselling in specific settings;
Social justice and equity (e.g., issues of diversity, advocacy, racial or ethnic identity, religion and culture, gender issues);
Special applications;
Counselling services in countries with social and economic challenges.