Teacher agency has been a burgeoning topic of research in education and music education. In education research, professional agency has been associated with the influence of policy, teacher demographics, teacher beliefs, professional developments, and teaching environments. In music education, music teacher professional agency is a music teacher's…

My study brought together a group of white educators in sustained critical narrative inquiry groups to tease out, investigate, and interrogate why we, white educators, especially white women, may hold on to an ideology of Niceness (cf. Castagno). Niceness seeks to continue and reinforce "ideologies of dominance across lines of race, gender,…

Racial/ethnic minorities carry a disproportionate burden of mental illness, in comparison to Whites. As such, the integration of cultural humility within mental health oriented (MHO) counseling disciplines seeks to prepare counseling professionals to address root causes of these disparities. Cultural humility requires lifelong learning and ongoing…

This qualitative study uses in-depth interviewing to illuminate the experiences of nineteen faculty and build on my own experiences "teaching up" -- teaching as faculty from a traditionally marginalized group(s) about privilege -- to understand how faculty experience these situations and make meaning of them. Findings revealed racialized…

Research has shown the volume of bachelor's degrees conferred to Latinx students more than doubled between school years 2004-2005 and 2014-2015, a 115% increase from 101,000 to 218,000. Despite the influx of Latinx student enrollment in higher education institutions, graduation rates for this student population have persistently remained low and…

Drawing upon Motowidlo and Beier's (2010) theoretical model, the present cross-sectional field study shows the ways in which Indian medical students' (N = 310) job specific experiential antecedent or students' perception about supervisors' prosociality contributes to their prosocial knowledge and clinical performance in a high power distance (PD)…

Higher education is a distribution center of knowledge and economic, social, and cultural power (Cervero & Wilson, 2001). A critical approach to understanding a higher education classroom begins with recognizing the instructor's position of power and authority (Tisdell, Hanley, & Taylor, 2000). The power instructors wield exists…