33 research outputs found
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again: Beginning Teachers Teaching for Social Justice
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice ideals into viable pedagogy. They also discuss the struggles the teachers faced when enacting social justice curricula and the tenuous connection they perceived between their conceptions and their practices. The authors emphasize that such struggles are inevitable and end the article with recommendations for ways in which teacher educators can prepare beginning teachers for the uncertain journey of teaching for social justice
Educational Experiences and Shifts in Group Consciousness: Studying Women
This study takes a multifaceted approach to group consciousness. The authors assessed changes in womenâs feminist consciousness due to their exposure to feminism through womenâs studies. Feminist consciousness was measured at the beginning and end of a semester during which some research participants were enrolled in an introductory womenâs studies course. Womenâs studies students were compared with students who were interested, but not enrolled, in womenâs studies. As expected, womenâs studies students showed an increase on several aspects of feminist consciousness, whereas non-womenâs studies students did not. Non-womenâs studies students became less sensitive to sexism. It is also noteworthy that, although they became more feminist, womenâs studies students did not become more negative toward men.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69064/2/10.1177_0146167299025003010.pd
Thinking about Race: The Salience of Racial Identity at Two- and Four-Year Colleges and the Climate for Diversity
Racial identity salience is an important component of identity development that is associated with a number of educational outcomes. Using the Diverse Learning Environments Survey, this study identifies precollege and college experiences that contribute to a heightened salience of racial identity, and its relationship to perceptions of campus climate