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A Hermeneutic Phenomenology Of Graduate Education Students' Understandings Of Instructor Power In A Higher Education Classroom, Antonio Delgado
A Hermeneutic Phenomenology Of Graduate Education Students' Understandings Of Instructor Power In A Higher Education Classroom, Antonio Delgado
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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 mostly unquestioned, allowing for teaching practices that reproduce the existing societal patterns of inequity in the classroom (Brookfield, 2000).
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore students’ experiences with the power of their instructors in a higher education classroom. A hermeneutic phenomenological study intertwines the interpretations of both the participants …