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Janice Miller-Young; Marnie Jamieson; Seth Beck – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Cultivating a sense of belonging can be challenging in online contexts as well as for underrepresented students in engineering education. This study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design to understand underrepresented students' experiences in a Canadian first-year course. Taking place during remote delivery due to COVID-19, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Sense of Belonging, College Freshmen
Taylor, Dale L; Bangeni, Bongi – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2022
Drawing on a sociocultural understanding of identities as multiple and fluid, we investigate how six practicing teachers recruited their biographical resources in constituting their discourse identities in interviews. The South African context allows us to consider how systemic inequality shapes the identity resources available to teachers from…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Differences, Racial Differences
Power, Sally; Smith, Kevin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
This paper explores the responses of nearly 1,200 children and young people in Wales who were asked to identify which three famous people they most admired and which three they most disliked. Analysis of these young people's responses reveals a number of sociological and educational issues. Their selections confirm other research which has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Models, Change Strategies, Change Agents
Tanga, Pius T.; Nyasha, Kausi – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: This study explored the perceptions of stakeholders regarding the practice of cross-racial adoption (CRA) in East London, South Africa. Method: A qualitative research design was used. Data were collected through individual interviews and focus group discussions from 23 participants. The data were analyzed qualitatively, using thematic…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Blacks, Whites, Adoption
Maylor, Uvanney – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
Growing concerns about the experience and achievement of Black pupils (especially Black males) underpin calls for more Black people to serve as teacher and lay mentor role models in schools. Calls for increased numbers of Black teacher role models assume firstly, that Black teachers regard themselves as role models and want to perform such a role…
Descriptors: Blacks, Role Models, Teacher Role, Males

Solomon, R. Patrick – Canadian Journal of Education, 1997
The hypothesis that ethnocultural minority teachers bring characteristics and experiences to their teaching that create a positive learning environment was studied by tracking 20 Canadian candidates of color from preadmission to teacher education through graduate study. Findings show the transgenerational commitment to role modeling and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cultural Differences, Education Majors, Ethnic Groups
Weinreich, Peter – 1978
A study of identity development was carried out in Bristol, England, with Asian, West Indian, and indigenous British adolescents. Ethnic and gender differences in patterns of identification conflict with others were found between minority group boys and girls. Both sexes from both minority groups, however, had substantial identification conflicts…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conflict, Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnicity