Relationship-Centered Teaching: Addressing Racial Tensions in Classrooms

Abstract

As one way to address racial tensions in the classroom and beyond, the author advances the idea of relationship-centered teaching, where students and teachers co-build a classroom ethos that considers the evolving and conflicting nature of relationships. Strategies and recommendations to support teachers in learning and developing knowledge and skills to support students are considered.

Key words::

• curriculum
• race
• relationships
• teaching

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H. Richard Milner

H. Richard Milner IV is Helen Faison Professor of Urban Education and Director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There (2010) and Rac(e)ing to Class (2015), both from Harvard Education Press, and coauthor of the forthcoming book These Kids Are Out of Control (Corwin Press, 2018). Email: [email protected]