Document Type
Issue Area Six
Abstract
Appropriate models are essential for everyone. Models give us goals to aim for, showing us what we may possibly become; they give us images of reality, showing us what we are likely to become. Our education provides us with role models as well as information and skills. The quality and appropriateness of these role models are is important to our education as are the skills or the information.
It is, therefore, highly distressing that at the end of the twentieth century appropriate role models are hard to find for people of color in American education. This unfortunate fact harms all Americans, though it is particularly devastating for people of color. For people of color it means their ability to learn and grow into productive citizens is compromised by feelings of exclusion. For the rest of society it means the loss of those productive people for the community as a whole. Ricardo R. Fernandez (1988) states, "The prosperity of future generations of Americans hinges in large measure on the nation's ability to educate all of its students, especially minorities, so that they can be productive, contributing members to our social and economic order."
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
2
Issue
2
First Page
188
Last Page
192
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1991 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Tartakov, Carlie
(1991)
"Issue Six: Appropriate Role Models for People of Color in Education (Social, Academic, Administration) [Tartakov],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 2:
No.
2, Article 45.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol2/iss2/45
