Jerome Morris , Ph.D.
Social Foundations of Education
Phone: (706) 542-8117
jemorris@uga.edu

The larger context of my scholarship includes anthropological and sociological approaches toward the study of race and culture in education and society, with a special interest in how educational and social policies influence African American students' schooling experiences. My major research endeavor to date includes a multi-year ethnographic and sociological investigation of predominantly African-American schools and communities in St. Louis, Missouri and Atlanta, Georgia. Emanating from this previous research, future research interests include conducting a multi-year investigation of urban, African American adolescents' academic and social identity development, across multiple contexts. A specific goal is to contribute to the development of constructs towards a theory of development grounded in African American adolescents' experiences, by understanding how the social institutions that are critical to them influence their academic and social identities.

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