Check out McMillan and Moore’s (2020) article on “how making mistakes and learning errors are essential to achievement, as well as the development of positive dispositions such as persistence, resilience, and risk-taking”
There is considerable research evidence that well designed and well-taught ethnic studies curricula have positive academic and social outcomes for students.
See Tintiangco-Cubales et al article in The Urban Review which provides recommendations for practice and research in the interest of preparing and supporting effective Ethnic Studies teaching in K-12 classrooms.
Read Dee & Penner’s recent article in the American Educational Research Journal on the causal positive effects of culturally relevant pedagogy & ethnic studies classes in high school.
Read more about how universities can engage in critical brokerage, building on the existing community partner’s work and serving “not just as a broker for new individual life potentialities, but for a more just and equitable society.”
To read more about how to structure teamwork in the classroom, see Hansen’s (2006) synthesis of literature on the problems and possibilities of teamwork in classrooms.
