6 research outputs found
Advancing the Next Generation of Higher Education Scholars: An Examination of One Doctoral Classroom
Course content in graduate school is especially important in terms of helping students make progress toward a doctorate. However, content is merely one aspect of developing successful students. This article highlights the value of creating an affirming learning environment by discussing one graduate class on Qualitative Policy Research. The majority of student participants were graduate students of color. The authors discuss the pedagogical approaches guiding this course and outline ways in which the instructor served to create safe spaces that invited as well as validated diverse perspectives and made the research process transparent. These efforts resulted in the production of high quality research used as pilot studies for successful dissertation defenses, accepted presentations at scholarly conferences, and published articles in peer-reviewed journals. Throughout this article, suggestions for replicating a similar course environment are discussed
Emotional Labor in Mathematics: Reflections on Mathematical Communities, Mentoring Structures, and EDGE
Terms such as "affective labor" and "emotional labor" pepper feminist
critiques of the workplace. Though there are theoretical nuances between the
two phrases, both kinds of labor involve the management of emotions; some acts
associated with these constructs involve caring, listening, comforting,
reassuring, and smiling. In this article I explore the different ways academic
mathematicians are called to provide emotional labor in the discipline, thereby
illuminating a rarely visible component of a mathematical life in the academy.
Underlying this work is my contention that a conceptualization of labor
involved in managing emotions is of value to the project of understanding the
character, values, and boundaries of such a life. In order to investigate the
various dimensions of emotional labor in the context of academic mathematics, I
extend the basic framework of Morris and Feldman [33] and then apply this
extended framework to the mathematical sciences. Other researchers have mainly
focused on the negative effects of emotional labor on a laborer's physical,
emotional, and mental health, and several examples in this article align with
this framing. However, at the end of the article, I argue that mathematical
communities and mentoring structures such as EDGE help diminish some of the
negative aspects of emotional labor while also accentuating the positives.Comment: Revised version to appear in the upcoming volume A Celebration of
EDGE, edited by Sarah Bryant, Amy Buchmann, Susan D'Agostino, Michelle
Craddock Guinn, and Leona Harri
Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees
A crucial resource for successfully recruiting and retaining faculty of color. Turner takes a holistic approach to increasing faculty diversity and offers practical suggestions for before, during, and after the search