Gender bias exists in our language environment. We investigated personal name usage in two large corpora of language written for and by U.K. children aged 5-13. Study 1 found an overrepresentation of male names in children's books, largely attributable to male authors. In stories written by over 100,000 children, Study 2 found an overall male bias…

In higher education, the underachievement of minority males is consistently reflected in research, where data have shown a persistence gap separating minority males from other student groups in measures of academic progress and college completion. Campuses typically did little, if anything, to build the capacity of faculty and staff to educate and…

The purpose of this collective case study was to examine the role of sports participation in the academic success of African American male administrators. Critical Race Theory (CRT) provided a theoretical framework for this study. According to CRT proponents, the school experiences of many African American boys consist of a curriculum of control…

The purpose of my study is to explore the lived experiences, challenges, and opportunities of African American male school leaders leading in rural schools in North Carolina. My study looks at the intersection of identity in which a school leader in a rural community is an African American male. African American males face numerous barriers in…

Despite increases in institutional supports for queer-spectrum college students over the past 20 years (Garvey et al., 2017; Pryor, 2018), this population -- which includes gay/queer cisgender men -- still perceives campuses to be less safe and welcoming than their straight peers (Greathouse et al., 2018; Pryor, 2018). Additionally, gay/queer…

This study seeks to unearth, through methods of autoethnography and reflective self-inquiry, what can be learned about the development of personal and professional identity through the gaze of a Black male member of the academy by analyzing the various interactions and encounters experienced while navigating political spaces in predominantly white…

Australian educators teaching in the early years of formal schooling find themselves grappling with the dilemmas of preparing learners to sit performance-based assessments in later years and their sense of pedagogic responsibility towards designing competency-based assessment. Studies have explored this tension in the primary and middle years…

Implementing social-emotional learning skills into Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), the current study intended to extend the efficacy of CSR for teaching reading strategies when applying it to students in rural areas from a working-class community. To this purpose, forty-four students who made the comparison and the experimental groups were…

In this paper, we utilize the concepts of "racial knowledge" and "subjective understanding" to demonstrate how the metaphor of surrogacy encodes a racialized discourse via the epistemic authority of social science research. Taken together, we demonstrate how the pervasive use of surrogacy as a metaphor reflects the subjective…

Examinations of fraternity life have infrequently analyzed the interconnections between the focus on leadership attitudes and that of members' adherence to masculinities. In this critical quantitative study, the authors sought to comprehend how conforming to gendered norms often associated with historically white masculinities informed relational…

This article focuses on the navigation and negotiation of a Zulu student on a diverse university campus in South Africa. Students in higher education institutions bring their life stories, shaped by lived experiences, culture, history, and language, to the campus, while the interconnection between race, language, culture, and gender creates new…

This study investigated how peer support has influenced the lived experiences of Salvadoran men in higher education. In particular, this study focused on exploring the academic, emotional, and personal components of the peer support experiences of Salvadoran men in higher education. Moreover, this study also examined how interacting with peers,…

Male students of color often receive harsher disciplinary consequences than their same age White peers. Disproportionate discipline practices have existed within the education system for years, primarily due to a historical systemic issue of implicit bias due to race. One intervention used to quell some of these disparities is Restorative…

This qualitative dissertation investigates the experiences of men of color participating in Male Success Initiatives (MSIs) and examines the impact these initiatives have on their undergraduate experiences. Central to the study are two main research questions: How do MSIs influence and shape the experiences of men of color participants? And, how…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a Universal Design for Learning (UDL)-based gender roles program on university students. The research was carried out utilizing an embedded mixed research design. The participants in the research took part in a UDL-Based Gender Roles Program that focused on sustainable development goals…