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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Counterstories"”.
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Qissati. Counterstories of Muslim Women School Administrators in Schools
… of individual experience, I provide new counterstories of gendered Islamophobia in school leadership and Islamophobia in schools more widely.
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Latina Immigrant Mothers' Counterstories of Education: Challenging Deficit Myths
… study joins a growing body of research that uses counterstories to challenge deficit mentalities in education toward working-class Latin@ immigrant students and their families.</p> <p>This qualitative study involved individual, focus group, and member checking interviews with four Latin@ immigrant …
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Challenging the French immersion orthodoxy : student stories and counterstories
Through this study I have provided an understanding of what French immersion was like for children who left the program. I have considered an important aspect of the French immersion program that has been neglected in the research literature. My main research question was: What were the experiences …
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Leading Towards Racial Justice: Counterstories of TK-12 Latinx Men Administrators
… in an in-depth and meaningful way. The counterstories of this study derived from individual, semi-structured, open-ended interviews and revealed the participants’ perseverance through discrimination as Men and Educators of Color as well as their culturally responsive leadership …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
<p>This study examines the literacy narratives of disfranchised educators. It unveils the toll the “literacy myth” has taken on their educational pursuits in American institutions. Through these published narratives, the study explores the ways in which the Eurocentric ideology dominates academic …
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Voices of Hispanic and Latina/o secondary students in northern Colorado: poetic counterstories
This study examines the experiences of Hispanic and Latina/o middle and high school students in a public school district in Northern Colorado over four years (2006 to 2009) as described by the students themselves and analyzed and interpreted by a member of the same cultural group. Informed by a …
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The Voices of Reason: Counterstories of the Urbanization of a Suburban Black School in Georgia
<p>This inquiry explores the discrepancy of educational opportunities in a Black suburban public school near Atlanta, Georgia. Predominately Black suburban schools in the South have become increasingly similar to Black urban schools. Both Black urban and suburban schools have become places of …
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Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study
<p>Public youth resistance movements in 2019 and 2020 exposed the entrenchment of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, and classism across New York City independent schools (NYCIS). In order to support the imminent need for schools to provide effective diversity, inclusion, and equity supports that …
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Sealing The Cracks of The Educational Pipeline: Counterstories That Reveal Cultural Resiliency and Collective Responsibility in Latinas’ K-16 Success
… degree. This research includes nine counterstories of Latinas who were the first in their families to have successfully completed their undergraduate degrees. The results of this study find that throughout childhood, many participants' parents taught their children how to overcome …
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“My Training Wheels are Off:” How First Generation College Students Made Meaning of the Influence of their College Access and Support Programs
… & McLaren, 2002), I analyzed the participants’ counterstories and uncovered how first generation college students used college access and success programs to navigate a historically classed and raced education system. The findings centered the students’ stories, showed how college access …
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White Memory and the (Counter)Stories We Might Tell
… "rhetorical attendance"; then, I construct counterstories to call storytellers to account for flattening and compression in progress narratives. First, I examined 1872 Forward, VT's sesquicentennial celebration, held in March 2022. Then, I explored Denim Day Do-Over, a 2019 event in which …
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Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School
… and attitudes; personal histories, or counterstories; personal paradigms; and social, cultural, and economic factors. The research concluded with an action plan to share findings with school staff and other Latino parents interested in home language maintenance.</p>
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The youth equity agents project : engaging critical literacies through youth participatory action research
… learning, youth “wrote school” by authoring counterstories (Delgado, 1989) of CHS and other urban schools, as well their visions for justice in the design of a new CHS. Across their work in the project youth engaged a wide array of literacies including talk, movement, and photography. This …
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Conocimiento in Community College Leadership: How Latina/Chicana Administrators Reclaim Agency in Contested Terrain Along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
… was presented through composite testimonio counterstories by distilling testimonios into five composite characters.</p> <p>Findings illustrate community colleges created <em>institutional desconocimiento</em> (organizational bias and willful ignorance perpetuating dominant norms) through<em> …
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“Rosas y Espinas” Counter stories of Illinois Latina educational leaders
… qualitative research study was to examine the counterstories of Latina educational leaders serving in Illinois PreK-8 and PreK-12 school districts. The twelve research participants interviewed included an assistant superintendent, a chief academic officer, three central office directors, six …
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Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity
… evolution of Creole identity through the use of counterstories. Creoles mounted resistance to systemic oppression during colonization, enslavement, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, resistance that continues to the present day. Resistance has taken on the form of solidarity networks, …
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Sentimentality and digital storytelling: towards a post-conflict pedagogy in pre-service teacher education in South Africa
… this compromising their authorial intent to tell counterstories. Finally, the genre storytellers chose, the context into which their stories were told, along with their positioning within this context in terms of their privilege, affected the extent to which they could make themselves vulnerable. …
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African American Teenage Males Speak Out: The Influence of African American Males on the Academic Achievement, Identities, and Lives of African American Teenage Males
… American teenage males to tell their silenced counterstories that challenge the official or meta-narrative and empower them to understand the sources of racism and discrimination in schools and societies. There is a demand to develop a culturally responsive and challenging pedagogy that help …
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Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School
… that continue in schools today.</p> <p>Counterstories of elementary teachers and students challenge the dominant narratives of power and hegemony, particularly the stereotypical views of teachers and students experiencing frustrations and injustices perpetuated by current oppressive …
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Exploring the Factors That African Refugee-Background Students Identify as Being Helpful to Their Academic Success
African refugee-background (ARB) students achieve high standards of success, yet their lived experiences are frequently absent from educational literature in Canada. Current and past research has focused on their academic deficits, their vulnerabilities, and their maladjusted behaviour, neglecting …