Teaching in the service of social justice requires an understanding of how our belief structures and identities inform our practice. For that reason, the experience of secondary social studies teachers as they develop and reflect on their critical consciousness was the focus of …
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In spite of various programs implemented in colleges to help Black males transition into higher education, research shows that this population of students is still the most disproportionately impacted in terms of academic progress and success. Solutions often support a cultural …
Courses in ethnic studies challenge power dynamics in the classroom, create the conditions for multiple experiences and perspectives to be present, and examine the history and legacy of racism and how it operates. Additionally, ethnic studies courses may foster empathy across al…
The central task of Toward a Pedagogy of Critical Liberative Theological Consciousness: Cultivating Students as Agents of Social Change is discovering pedagogical and theological wisdom for social transformation, through a dialogue with James H. Cone and Paulo Freire. Accordingl…
Developing insights from decolonial theory, trauma theory, and critical pedagogy, my project offers a historical genealogy of the rhetoric of the body by focusing on the phenomenon of wounds and the condition of semi-ness. I link late-medieval and Early Modern female Iberian Chr…
Educational drama is a term that has in recent years achieved a pride of place in the field of arts-based research. During previous centuries, however, drama was considered anathema to formal learning and theaters themselves were considered “sinks of uncleanliness” (Coggin, 1956…
Dialogic pedagogy involves students as critical inquirers, who can analyze their perspectives and attitudes. Dialogic creates liminal space (Buber, 1965) where conversation generates knowledge and personal relations. I intend to explore these ‘dialogic spaces’ where a group of 2…
The focus of the research for this thesis is the development of critical pedagogy for a greater understanding of environment/development issues among sixth form A Level geography students. The thesis first considers the concept of sustainable development which can provide a fram…
Learner autonomy has been recognised as a desirable educational goal, especially within the domains of adult and higher education. Whereas this has led to a growing body of research addressing learner autonomy across different educational and cultural contexts, there are still c…
This dissertation examines how analog and digital history games complicate and challenge the dominant discourse of teaching American History through Texas state high school-focused texts and these texts complicity in suppressing non-normative histories. These histories are forme…
This project has been undertaken with the purpose of challenging and changing the harmful expectations of gender norms and hegemonic masculinity imposed on children. I argue that in order to make a better future, in terms of gender equity, educators must challenge and question s…
Ser Culto es ser Libre To be Cultured [is the only way] to be Free The 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign (CLC), initiated on January 1, was a socio-political project of the Cuban Revolution seeking to eradicate profound social and racial inequalities in Cuba. While little is known ab…
High school students deserve educations that honor and respect their cultural positionalities, of which religious beliefs are frequently an integral part. Almost 25% of students in Catholic high schools identify as non-Catholic, but the U.S. Catholic bishops have mandated that C…
This dissertation examines the lived experiences of teachers, students, and administrators at a public charter school based on progressive philosophies such as experiential education, restorative justice, and social justice. Through a qualitative constructivist grounded theory a…
This dissertation examines the lived experiences of teachers, students, and administrators at a public charter school based on progressive philosophies such as experiential education, restorative justice, and social justice. Through a qualitative constructivist grounded theory a…
Critical pedagogies offer a particular orientation towards education that understands the process of learning as inherently political. These frameworks demand explicit political attention by teachers to support student development of practices needed to create a liberatory world…
Carlos Alberto Torres has been one of the most prolific and influential theorists of education over the past half century and is the preeminent scholar in the founding and development of the subfield of the political sociology of education, which critically examines the operatio…
Since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation, Black women teachers (BWTs) have had perpetually high rates of attrition, despite their legacy of providing high quality, emancipatory education (Acosta, 2019; Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond; 2017b; D…