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Confronting And Dismantling Whiteness In Higher Education: A Grassroots Approach, Winnie Needham Apr 2021

Confronting And Dismantling Whiteness In Higher Education: A Grassroots Approach, Winnie Needham

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The purpose of this qualitative research study was to investigate how an Educational Studies department in a small, Midwestern liberal arts college might confront and dismantle whiteness in curricular, pedagogical, and policy choices. Utilizing a critical participatory action research design, five higher education faculty engaged in a critical conversation inquiry group (Schieble et al., 2020) to develop their critical literacy (Rogers and Mosley, 2014). This study was designed to answer the following questions: How do faculty within an Educational Studies department think about their racial identities and the relevance of racial identity to the program, the institution, and higher education? …


[Accepted Version] A Summary Of Research In Science Education—1986. Part Ii, James Shymansky, William Kyle Jan 1988

[Accepted Version] A Summary Of Research In Science Education—1986. Part Ii, James Shymansky, William Kyle

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This volume represents a compilation and organization of more than 400 research efforts reported in 1986. Its objective was to organize the research in such a way that studies or related topics are easy to access by practitioners or researchers. It is organized around four major sections that reflect the process of teaching, learning, and schooling including: (1) "Teaching and the Teacher" (studies of teacher attitudes, perceptions, practices, repertoires and performance); (2) "Learning and the Learner" (the nature of learning and characteristics of the learner); (3) "Curriculum and Instruction" (the nature of curricula, instructional variables, and characteristics of exemplary science …