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Digital Literacies In The Workplace: Exploring Employer Provided Education Opportunities And Learner Motivations, Jill Castek, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek, Gloria E. Jacobs Sep 2019

Digital Literacies In The Workplace: Exploring Employer Provided Education Opportunities And Learner Motivations, Jill Castek, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek, Gloria E. Jacobs

21CLEO Presentations and Publications

We have identified factors that encourage working learners to engage in education of workplace skills and literacies. The study examines the motivations and constraints of working learners as they acquire digital problem solving necessary to succeed in the workplace. In this session, you will learn about this study designed to amplify the voices of working-learners. Together we will examine factors in the 21st century learning ecosystem.


Contributing Factors To Earning Tenure Among Black Male Counselor Educators, Michael Hannon, Tyce Nadrich, Alfonso L. Ferguson, Matthew W. Bonner, David J. Ford, Linwood G. Vereen Jun 2019

Contributing Factors To Earning Tenure Among Black Male Counselor Educators, Michael Hannon, Tyce Nadrich, Alfonso L. Ferguson, Matthew W. Bonner, David J. Ford, Linwood G. Vereen

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

The authors used a phenomenological research design and a critical race theory lens to examine interviews with 8 Black male counselor educators and learn what contributed to their earning tenure. Participants described requisite personal dispositions and institutional support as contributing factors. Recommendations include facilitating programmatic sociocultural awareness, assessing faculty experiences, and coordinating mentoring opportunities.


Reframing Success: Participatory Impacts Of Storytelling In Par Collaborative With Latinx Middle School Students, Jennifer Lucko Mar 2019

Reframing Success: Participatory Impacts Of Storytelling In Par Collaborative With Latinx Middle School Students, Jennifer Lucko

Education | Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the participatory impact of a storytelling project on a small group of Latinx English learners in a sixth grade classroom. The storytelling project unexpectedly emerged as a positive ripple effect from a Participatory Action Research (PAR) initiative to foster civic empowerment among middle school students in an English Language Development classroom in Northern California during the 2014–2015 academic year. As the university researcher and classroom teacher worked together on the PAR project, they came to understand the importance of storytelling for this group of students and agreed to create a safe classroom space with appropriate instructional support …


Village Pedagogy: Empowering African American Students To Be Activist, Shuntay Z. Mccoy, Tiffany G.B. Packer, Rochelle Brock (Ed.), Dara Nix-Stevenson (Ed.), Paul Chamness Miller (Ed.) Jan 2019

Village Pedagogy: Empowering African American Students To Be Activist, Shuntay Z. Mccoy, Tiffany G.B. Packer, Rochelle Brock (Ed.), Dara Nix-Stevenson (Ed.), Paul Chamness Miller (Ed.)

Counseling & Human Services Faculty Publications

The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reenvision Black Studies through a critical lens. The book not only stretches the boundaries of knowledge and understanding of issues critical to the Black experience, it creates a theoretical grounding that is intersectional in its approach. Our notion of Black Studies is neither singularly grounded in African American Studies nor on traditional notions of the Black experience. Though situated work in this field has historically grappled with the question of «where are we?» in Black Studies, this volume offers the reader a type of criticalization …