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Producing The Global Classroom: Exploring The Impact Of Us Study Abroad On Host Communities In San Jose, Costa Rica And Florence, Italy, Julie Ficarra
Producing The Global Classroom: Exploring The Impact Of Us Study Abroad On Host Communities In San Jose, Costa Rica And Florence, Italy, Julie Ficarra
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This project draws attention to a disconnect between US higher education internationalization policy rhetoric which centers ideas of mutual cross-cultural exchange, and study abroad research, which focuses almost exclusively on the educational and experiential outcomes of the US based participant. Using neoliberalism as a theoretical framework, this comparative case study utilizes qualitative interviews with 57 host community members in the popular study abroad destinations of San Jose, Costa Rica and Florence, Italy, to focus on how those who engage with US study abroad students understand and are impacted by those encounters. Each descriptive case explores: a) what motivates locals to …
The Transnational Narratives And Struggles Of Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women Teachers In New York City School Districts, Kimberly Natalia Williams Brown
The Transnational Narratives And Struggles Of Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women Teachers In New York City School Districts, Kimberly Natalia Williams Brown
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Between 2001 and 2003, 1500 Caribbean teachers were recruited to teach in New York City’s low income and primarily immigrant/student of color school districts. Using ethnographic research methods through interviews, observations, focus groups, and document analysis, this dissertation documents the narratives of 10 Afro-Caribbean Immigrant women teachers. Using feminist and critical race theory (CRT) lens’, the researcher explores the experiences of Afro- Caribbean immigrant women teachers recruited to teach in New York City as an entry point to situate Black, immigrant, and professional experiences in an urban city in the United States of America. Through this research, race, gender, immigrant …
Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work And The Blame Game, Heidi Katherine Pitzer
Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work And The Blame Game, Heidi Katherine Pitzer
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This dissertation explores how urban public school teachers navigate the contradictory social position of having little power over their work and considerable power over their students. This qualitative interpretive study begins from a perspective that is attentive to and critical of both (a) neoliberal approaches to education, particularly the market-based, audit culture logics and practices that devalue, discipline and target teachers as workers, and (b) the racialized deficit discourse, a predominant framework in urban schools--often taken up by urban teachers--that blames poor urban youth and youth of color for school problems, constructs them as objects in need of control and …