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Promoting Diversity Through Multilevel Activism: An Organizational Approach, Patricia Alvarez Mchatton, Barbara J. Shircliffe, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Promoting Diversity Through Multilevel Activism: An Organizational Approach, Patricia Alvarez Mchatton, Barbara J. Shircliffe, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) was founded in 1954 to serve as an independent body in promoting high quality teacher preparation programs (NCATE 2008). Its mission is to ensure accredited institutions produce high quality educators, administrators, and specialists able to meet the needs of all learners. Institutions seeking NCATE accreditation must address six standards NCATE identified as essential to producing quality educators: (1) Candidate knowledge, skills and professional dispositions; (2) Assessment system and unit evaluation; (3) Field experiences and clinical practice; (4) Diversity; (5) Faculty qualifications, performance, and development; and (6) Unit governance and resources. This …
Tedious Journeys: Autoethnography By Women Of Color In Academe Edited By Cynthia Cole Robinson And Pauline Clardy, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Tedious Journeys: Autoethnography By Women Of Color In Academe Edited By Cynthia Cole Robinson And Pauline Clardy, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
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Betwixt Safety And Shielding In The Academy: Confronting Institutional Gendered Racism—Again, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Betwixt Safety And Shielding In The Academy: Confronting Institutional Gendered Racism—Again, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
This article represents a critical reflection of a Black African American female associate professor who, while teaching a diversity course, unknowingly enabled systems of power and privilege to undermine her faculty role in the course and in the academy. The author revisits a story of this experience and its vestiges using Critical Race Theory (CRT) and an autoethnographic approach. In doing so, she comes to terms with her complicity in supporting White supremacy and patriarchy and reclaims a voice previously suppressed yet still vulnerable in the matrix of institutional power. Two significant shifts are captured in this account--a narrative shift …
African Americans And The Struggle For Opportunity In Florida Public Higher Education, 1947–1977, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Barbara Shircliffe
African Americans And The Struggle For Opportunity In Florida Public Higher Education, 1947–1977, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Barbara Shircliffe
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
In the decades following World War II, access to higher education became an important vehicle for expanding opportunity in the United States. The African American–led Civil Rights Movement challenged discrimination in higher education at a time when state and federal government leaders saw strengthening public higher education as necessary for future economic growth and development. Nationally, the 1947 President’s Commission on Higher Education report Higher Education for American Democracy advocated dismantling racial, geographic, and economic barriers to college by radically expanding public higher education, to be accomplished in large part through the development of community colleges. Although these goals ere …
When The Dialogue Becomes Too Difficult: A Case Study Of Resistance And Backlash, Wilma J. Henry, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, Herbert A. Exum, Harold Keller, Barbara Shircliffe
When The Dialogue Becomes Too Difficult: A Case Study Of Resistance And Backlash, Wilma J. Henry, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, Herbert A. Exum, Harold Keller, Barbara Shircliffe
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
This case study explains varied perspectives on a difficult dialogue. It provides recommendations for student affairs professionals and faculty members who work with students and teach courses in content areas that are related to diversity, social justice, and privilege.
Reducing Resistance To Diversity Through Cognitive Dissonance Instruction: Implications For Teacher Education, Elisabeth L. Mcfalls, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Reducing Resistance To Diversity Through Cognitive Dissonance Instruction: Implications For Teacher Education, Elisabeth L. Mcfalls, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
Before admission to the college of education, students at a large, predominantly White public university in the Southeast are required to complete a state-mandated course on diversity issues. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to diversity and effective ways of addressing it in future classrooms as a result of changing demographics. Often, students experience resistance to diversity issues because their current understandings or beliefs may not coincide with the information presented in class. One psychological theory that can address this phenomenon is called cognitive dissonance. In the study reported here, the principles of cognitive dissonance theory are …