Cynthia A Tyson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1584084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia A Tyson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyson |
| SIGNATURE | TYSON C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-9917-6773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond Checklists: Applying an “I Spy” Approach to Evaluating Children's Literature in Urban Classrooms
While the value of inclusive children's libraries is widely recognized, practical guidance on how to determine books that contribute to culturally responsive, high-quality collections—particularly in urban classrooms—remains limited. In response, we return to the familiar and cross-cultural seek-and-find model of the I Spy game to introduce a new framework for evaluating children's books that reflect urban classroom diversity. Our approach challe…
When I Think of Home: Black Families Supporting Their Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, and persistent systemic and structural racism have plagued Black communities. The continued physical and symbolic violence and murders of Black bodies are undeniable. As White institutions, schools are definite contributors to this brutality as they center the culture and realities of White children while ignoring or denigrating Black children. This is even evident in the undermining of B…
“There is a Balm in Gilead”: Black Social Workers’ Spiritual Counterstory on the Covid-19 Crisis
as our conduit to elucidate our culturally situated responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We seek to explore the connections between faith and resilience in social work practice during this public health crisis. Drawing from our shared experiences as two Black social workers we discuss the role spirituality plays in mitigating loneliness and stress among socially isolated older African-American adults (i.e., social distancing). Finally, with physic…
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it centers on research on diverse populations, bringing together both research on diversity and research on diversit…
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it centers on research on diverse populations, bringing together both research on diversity and research on diversit…
Handbook of Research in Social Studies Education
This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education – a complex, dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on-going conflict over the content of the curriculum. Equally important, it encourages new research in order to advance the field and foster civic competence; long maintained by advocates for the social studies as a fundamental goal. In considering how to organize the Han…
Dialogic narratives of literacy, teaching, and schooling: Preparing literacy teachers for diverse settings
S In this study, we focus on the “dialogic narratives” (Bakhtin, 1981, 1986) of selected preservice teachers within an innovative teacher education program in the Midwestern U.S. that included community‐based internships. In particular, we examine how these students author their identities as literacy teachers within the context of a mediated seminar setting. Drawing on Bakhtin's theory of discourse, we analyzed students' dialogic narratives as a…
Get Up Offa That Thing”: African American Middle School Students Respond to Literature to Develop a Framework for Understanding Social Action
The use of children's literature in urban social studies classrooms to facilitate students' engagement in literate behaviors and simultaneously develop a framework for understanding social action is an under -researched area. This paper discusses the use of literature for children and young adults in an urban middle school language arts and social studies block as a pedagogical strategy to facilitate understandings of social action. The African A…
My soul is a witness: Affirming pedagogies of the spirit
Utilizing a cultural ideology and an explicit discourse of spirituality, this paper seeks to answer three questions. First, what does spirituality mean for the ways in which African-American women educate and research? Second, how does the enactment and embodiment of a spiritually centered paradigm impact the learning of both teacher and student in the context of the classroom? Finally, what might such work imply in terms of theory and praxis, pa…
Shut my mouth wide open: Realistic fiction and social action
1999). “Shut my mouth wide open”: Realistic fiction and social action. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 38, Expanding the Worlds of Children's Literature, pp. 155-159
"A Response to "Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies Racially Biased
A Response to “Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?”
My soul is a witness: Affirming pedagogies of the spirit
Utilizing a cultural ideology and an explicit discourse of spirituality, this paper seeks to answer three questions. First, what does spirituality mean for the ways in which African-American women educate and research? Second, how does the enactment and embodiment of a spiritually centered paradigm impact the learning of both teacher and student in the context of the classroom? Finally, what might such work imply in terms of theory and praxis, pa…
Get Up Offa That Thing”: African American Middle School Students Respond to Literature to Develop a Framework for Understanding Social Action
The use of children's literature in urban social studies classrooms to facilitate students' engagement in literate behaviors and simultaneously develop a framework for understanding social action is an under -researched area. This paper discusses the use of literature for children and young adults in an urban middle school language arts and social studies block as a pedagogical strategy to facilitate understandings of social action. The African A…
A Response to “Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?”
When I Think of Home: Black Families Supporting Their Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, and persistent systemic and structural racism have plagued Black communities. The continued physical and symbolic violence and murders of Black bodies are undeniable. As White institutions, schools are definite contributors to this brutality as they center the culture and realities of White children while ignoring or denigrating Black children. This is even evident in the undermining of B…
Dialogic narratives of literacy, teaching, and schooling: Preparing literacy teachers for diverse settings
S In this study, we focus on the “dialogic narratives” (Bakhtin, 1981, 1986) of selected preservice teachers within an innovative teacher education program in the Midwestern U.S. that included community‐based internships. In particular, we examine how these students author their identities as literacy teachers within the context of a mediated seminar setting. Drawing on Bakhtin's theory of discourse, we analyzed students' dialogic narratives as a…
Shut my mouth wide open: Realistic fiction and social action
1999). “Shut my mouth wide open”: Realistic fiction and social action. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 38, Expanding the Worlds of Children's Literature, pp. 155-159
"A Response to "Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies Racially Biased
"A Response to "Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies Racially Biased
A Response to “Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?”
Shut my mouth wide open: Realistic fiction and social action
1999). “Shut my mouth wide open”: Realistic fiction and social action. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 38, Expanding the Worlds of Children's Literature, pp. 155-159
My soul is a witness: Affirming pedagogies of the spirit
Utilizing a cultural ideology and an explicit discourse of spirituality, this paper seeks to answer three questions. First, what does spirituality mean for the ways in which African-American women educate and research? Second, how does the enactment and embodiment of a spiritually centered paradigm impact the learning of both teacher and student in the context of the classroom? Finally, what might such work imply in terms of theory and praxis, pa…
Get Up Offa That Thing”: African American Middle School Students Respond to Literature to Develop a Framework for Understanding Social Action
The use of children's literature in urban social studies classrooms to facilitate students' engagement in literate behaviors and simultaneously develop a framework for understanding social action is an under -researched area. This paper discusses the use of literature for children and young adults in an urban middle school language arts and social studies block as a pedagogical strategy to facilitate understandings of social action. The African A…
Dialogic narratives of literacy, teaching, and schooling: Preparing literacy teachers for diverse settings
S In this study, we focus on the “dialogic narratives” (Bakhtin, 1981, 1986) of selected preservice teachers within an innovative teacher education program in the Midwestern U.S. that included community‐based internships. In particular, we examine how these students author their identities as literacy teachers within the context of a mediated seminar setting. Drawing on Bakhtin's theory of discourse, we analyzed students' dialogic narratives as a…
Handbook of Research in Social Studies Education
This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education – a complex, dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on-going conflict over the content of the curriculum. Equally important, it encourages new research in order to advance the field and foster civic competence; long maintained by advocates for the social studies as a fundamental goal. In considering how to organize the Han…
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it centers on research on diverse populations, bringing together both research on diversity and research on diversit…
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it centers on research on diverse populations, bringing together both research on diversity and research on diversit…
“There is a Balm in Gilead”: Black Social Workers’ Spiritual Counterstory on the Covid-19 Crisis
as our conduit to elucidate our culturally situated responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We seek to explore the connections between faith and resilience in social work practice during this public health crisis. Drawing from our shared experiences as two Black social workers we discuss the role spirituality plays in mitigating loneliness and stress among socially isolated older African-American adults (i.e., social distancing). Finally, with physic…
When I Think of Home: Black Families Supporting Their Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, and persistent systemic and structural racism have plagued Black communities. The continued physical and symbolic violence and murders of Black bodies are undeniable. As White institutions, schools are definite contributors to this brutality as they center the culture and realities of White children while ignoring or denigrating Black children. This is even evident in the undermining of B…
Beyond Checklists: Applying an “I Spy” Approach to Evaluating Children's Literature in Urban Classrooms
While the value of inclusive children's libraries is widely recognized, practical guidance on how to determine books that contribute to culturally responsive, high-quality collections—particularly in urban classrooms—remains limited. In response, we return to the familiar and cross-cultural seek-and-find model of the I Spy game to introduce a new framework for evaluating children's books that reflect urban classroom diversity. Our approach challe…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Racism (3 works)