In this article we discuss the lived, embodied experience of home-making in relation to identity and belonging through the example of a service-learning project conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in a higher education setting in London, UK. We also explore the notion of belonging-not-belonging as a cultural, material and embodied construct,…

This UK-based study examines how people learned to identify digital misinformation. This included what experiences enabled this development, and the skills that were acquired in the process. This is a small-scale qualitative study of participants who self-reported as being confident in spotting digital misinformation and the data was analysed…

While scholars have identified that the development of a critical consciousness encourages the social activism of Latinx/a/o, little is known about how critical consciousness shapes the academic identity of these students. The purpose of this LatCrit narrative study was to identify how critical consciousness influences how Latinx/a/o students view…

This paper traces the trajectories of multiracial college student development theories through the three waves conceptualized by Jones and Stewart (2016) to inform future directions in critical mixed race scholarship and praxis. Within each wave, the author examines the utility and limitations of each paradigmatic perspective to construct their…

This paper examines the challenges of fostering anti-oppressive education within teacher preparation programs. The paper argues that student resistance often stems from a psychological adherence to the familiar and a fear of disrupting deeply held self-concepts. It explores the instinct to defend preconceived ideas against perspectives that…

Examining the still underexplored elements in educational theorist Paulo Freire's work, this essay begins from his claim that problem-posing pedagogy works as a "kind of psychoanalysis." Situating Freire between the critical philosophical and psychoanalytic traditions, Alex Armonda offers a new reading of the problem-posing dialectic,…

This article extends current debates in Education for Peacebuilding (EfP) in conflict settings. It presents and discusses two paradoxes I have observed when examining EfP literature and engaging in conversations with EfP scholars: 'the paradox of liberalism' and 'the paradox of decoloniality'. I unpack these two paradoxes by engaging in conceptual…

The purpose of this study is to explore how teachers using culturally responsive instructional practices negotiate a high-stakes testing environment (HSTE). Culturally responsive pedagogy, an asset-based approach to improving student outcomes for marginalized students of color, has been established as an effective means of closing the 'opportunity…

This longitudinal case study utilizes critical event narrative methodology and intersectionality to examine the experiences of one female Caribbean teacher as she sought to enact her vision of socially just science education in secondary schools in the USA. This research explored how the convergence of racial, cultural, and science teaching…

This chapter explores the implications of acknowledging one's own excessive entitlement and living contradictions in contributing to Living-Educational-Theory Research. The analysis emphasises the importance of accepting one's educational responsibility for one's own continuing professional development in inquiries of the kind that address this…

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how Black women doctoral students describe and make meaning of their scholarly identities. Additionally, this study illustrates the negotiations Black women doctoral students make in the maintenance of their scholarly personas and their influence on their doctoral socialization experiences. Using…

Using critical theories of dominant-and counter-narratives, this study analyzed the texts of selected young adult books that focused on an underrepresented population of working-class rural youth in Appalachia. We explored how the dominant deficit narratives of these communities shaped the identity construction and choices of the books'…

This is the first edited volume to bring together research on the interaction between language teacher identity and wellbeing. It addresses the need for further research on the experience of language teachers and the vulnerability and resilience they demonstrate in the face of threats to their wellbeing. Naming, describing and analyzing issues…

Prior studies conducted on college students' perceptions of their academic control have demonstrated that academic attributions are malleable and that low levels of perceived control leading to academic failure can be mitigated by employing an Attributional Retraining (AR) intervention designed to modify maladaptive attributions. This study…

This paper focuses on spirituality and critical consciousness as two guiding forces for meaningful leadership. It further looks for the reconciliation of spirituality and criticality so as to deconstruct deep-seated leadership myths. Reconciling spirituality with critical perspective inspires individuals to have a critical and holistic…