Inquiry Chart
LEED 8420 – Spring 2022
Statement of Purpose: To examine how successful teachers (Define) utilize critical language pedagogy to support the education of Black students. To do so I will
explore teachers’ narratives in how they utilize critical language pedagogy to support Black students.
Create a model of critical language pedagogical practice https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Traditional-Teaching-vs-Critical-Pedagogy_tbl1_330406958
THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORK(s):
RESEARCH QUESTION(S)
Critical Language
Pedagogy
TENET 1–
Human Needs
(Maslow)
TENET 2–
Holistic (academic,
social & emotional
development)
How do successful teachers attend to
black students’ human needs?
How do successful teachers attend to
Black students’ educational needs
holistically?
RESEARCH DESIGN/ INSTRUMENTATION
Participants
Narrative
Teachers
Tenet 3 – Political
Community Uplift
Tenet 4 Multidimensionality
Do teachers engaging in critical language
pedagogy with black students have a
political purpose grounded in community
uplift?
How do these teachers perceive their
multidimensional approach impacting black
students?
Phase 1
Who
(Participants)
Where
(Site – Specific
Location)
When
(Approx. Timing)
What
(Instrumentation)
Why
(Theory/ Tenet)
Phase 2
Phase 3