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Matias, Cheryl E.; Thompson, Falynn A.; Luney, LeAnna T. – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2022
Though the academy is a space where education, exploration, and research reside, it is also a space of historical exclusion, ostracism, and oppression for diverse students, staff, and faculty. Particularly, with respect to the ever-present dynamics of whiteness via white supremacy, students, staff, and faculty of color are racially microaggressed…
Descriptors: Whites, Higher Education, Racial Identification, Emotional Experience
Kelsey Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative narrative inquiry study examined the narratives and experiences of White women admissions officers at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) and explored how they engaged with the development of their white racial identity throughout their professional careers. Using Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) and Helms' (1990) white racial…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Administrator Attitudes, Females, Whites
Tasha N. Peacock – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aims to understand and explore the lived experiences of six college access practitioners who supported a pathway program for students at an urban research institution. None of the participants in the study no longer work in college access. At least four participants explicitly stated they left their job due to burnout. This research…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Labor Turnover, Access to Education, Phenomenology
Hala Alnagar – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation explores the identity development of Muslim American women (N = 25) in higher education, utilizing intersectionality as both a methodological and theoretical framework. First and foremost, it centers the lived experiences, agency, and autonomy of Muslim women throughout the findings. Second, it takes into account the intersecting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Self Concept, Females, Personal Autonomy
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Ibourk, Amal; Hughes, Roxanne; Mathis, Clausell – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) identity has become a popular lens in science education research. However, few studies have looked at how using the interpersonal, structural, cultural, and disciplinary domains of power sheds light on how women of color differently navigate the various cultures of formal and informal…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Science Education, Mathematics Education
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Brookfield, Stephen D. – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
In his rejoinder, Stephen Brookfield, responds to Edith Gnanadass and Shantih E. Clemans for their critiques of his article, "Why White Instructors Should Explore Their White Racial Identity"(EJ1246146). Brookfield thanks his two colleagues for engaging so passionately and accurately with his work and for problematizing all the omissions…
Descriptors: Whites, Teachers, Adult Basic Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Tryon, Elizabeth; Madden, Haley – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
Community engagement professionals (CEPs) often must develop and maintain equitable, high-quality relationships with community partners while supporting student learning and civic development through cocurricular community engagement or for-credit community-based learning programs. Lack of alignment between campus goals and values and those of…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Persistence, Social Justice, Higher Education
Foste, Zak – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This critical narrative inquiry was guided by two overarching research questions. First, this study examined how white undergraduates interpreted and gave meaning to their white racial identities. This line of inquiry sought to understand how participants made sense of their white racial selves, the self in relation to people of color, and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, White Students
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Kannen, Victoria – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The dynamics of instructor embodiments and their relation to notions of power are explored in this paper. Informed by feminist poststructural theory, the author argues that, in classrooms where the focus of study is on conceptions of identity such as gender and race, the body of the instructor becomes an explicit pedagogical example. Through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Self Concept, Critical Theory
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Subreenduth, Sharon – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2008
Using personal narrative as a form of inquiry, this paper analyzes the possibilities of re/claiming epistemological grounds within racialized transnational spaces. Categories of race, nationality, and subject positions influence the legitimacies that are extended, withdrawn and or usurped within such transnational interactions. The paper examines…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Race, Ideology, Racial Identification
Allen, Ricky Lee – 2002
This conceptual analysis discusses how Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" theorizes the transformation of the oppressor. This work has played a major role in the creation, maintenance, and reinvigoration of critical pedagogy. The paper describes Freire's theory for transforming the oppressor and critically assesses his theory.…
Descriptors: Critical Pedagogy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Power Structure
Moreno, Renee – 1995
Eduardo Galeano's "Memory of Fire: Genesis" raises a number of questions concerning the "politics of location," a term that may be defined as the intersections, tensions, and complications that people of color bring to space and what space means in terms of hierarchies and power, racial and gender stratifications. Text can also…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Ethnicity, Higher Education, Language Role