Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Honigsfeld Andrea;Cohan Audrey;

Author:Honigsfeld, Andrea;Cohan, Audrey;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

This dissonance in attitudes among some of Excel Academy’s teachers caused them to become staunch disciplinarians, demanding silence and compliance above academic interests. Needless to say, in these classrooms the conflicting expectations had an adverse impact on motivation and engagement and fostered the environments in which a second complexity emerged, disguised engagement.

Disguised Engagement

The original case study surmised that disguised engagement was identified in 20 percent of the students, within the lower two of three academic performing levels, illustrated through the conduct and quality of work by learners who: (a) avoided teachers’ attention through social engagement; (b) disengaged socially when not directly supervised by teachers; and (c) disengaged academically, as indicated by incomplete class work.

Students who exhibit disguised engagement act surreptitiously to appear academically engaged and go to great lengths in order to obstruct their façade of learning from being exposed. “When teachers were instructing the whole class, these students sat up straight, looked attentive, appeared to be writing, and nodded their heads” (James, 2010, p. 179). Yet, a third of the students exhibited off-task behaviors (e.g., talking, hitting, getting out of their seats, drawing, or writing raps, etc.) when teachers’ attention was directed elsewhere.

These African American male learners were models of contrasts; two-thirds were active participants living up to the high academic and social expectations while the other third had learned the art of masquerading as an engaged student to avoid harsh disciplinary actions. This was an occurrence in classrooms in which teachers took on the disciplinarian persona as seen in expectations dissonance.

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