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ERIC Number: EJ1477627
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
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EISSN: EISSN-2640-608X
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(Re)Claiming the Garden, (Re)Learning to Fly: A Trinity Framework for Liberation in Virtual Graduate Spaces
Cherina Shaw
Journal of Online Graduate Education, v8 n1 2025
This reflective article, grounded in Endarkened Storywork and critical autoethnography, is a theoretically rich practitioner piece that contributes to current conversations in online graduate education. It introduces a trinity framework for online graduate (Re)liberation-Black Feminist-Womanist Epistemologies, Decolonial and Liberation Psychology, and Critical Race Theory. This framework holds the transformative potential to reshape the landscape of online graduate education, offering a new lens through which to view and engage with knowledge and learning. Grounded in lived experience as a Black mother-scholar, doula, E-RYT 500 yoga instructor, and educator, the article offers a culturally rooted critique of online graduate education and its epistemic exclusions. The author presents an original liberatory framework, theoretical methodology, and cultural paradigm--Black Liberatory Ancestral Consciousness & Epistemologies (BLACX)--developed through critical autoethnography, communal praxis, and spiritual reflection as a practice of resistance, ritual, and relational andragogy. Drawing from ancestral wisdom, spiritual epistemology, and storywork--including traditions like "The People Could Fly"--this work reimagines online spaces as sacred sites of transformation and provides a culturally responsive model for course design, pedagogy, and graduate learning. Implications include new possibilities for culturally sovereign pedagogies, institutional redesign, and healing-centered praxis in digital higher education environments.
Journal of Online Graduate Education. c/o Maggie Broderick, PhD, Editor, National University, 9388 Lightwave Avenue, San Diego, CA 92123. Tel: 412-848-8206; Web site: https://ijoge.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Adult Education
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Language: English
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