Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"power and privilege"”.
-
White Lies: A Critical Race Study of Power and Privilege
This was a phenomenological study of racial privilege as experienced by White people who have struggled to become more racially aware and socially active in dismantling racism and White privilege. The primary conceptual framework for this study was Critical Race Theory with Transformative Learning …
-
Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education in International Service-Learning: A Curriculum Exploring Race, Positionality, Power, and Privilege
… abroad. My curriculum unpacks whiteness, privilege, the white savior complex, and American immigration history. Using race, power, and privilege, I explore how these themes relate to acquiring awareness and understanding of participants' societal positioning. Through this lens, my aim is …
-
Sponsoring Educational Opportunity: Race, Racism, and Writing Instruction at the University of Illinois
… literacy instruction to preserve economic and/or political power and privilege. However, as a number of recent scholars suggest, much less is presently known about the means by which elites have employed literacy instruction to preserve and promote the power and privilege of white racism, …
-
Whose Streets? Our Streets!: Identity, Institutions, and Privilege in Student Activism
… that examines student activist identity, and the role of social structures and privilege in activism. The study uses data from two years of in-depth fieldwork including over 18 months of participant observation and interviews with 13 key respondents. I took on this research project to …
-
An EcoJustice analysis of dis/ability: Reimagining diversity and inclusion
… with dis/abilities are oppressed, marginalized, and devalued in Western industrial society. This domination is grounded in specific, historically-rooted perceptions and assumptions embedded in our language and value systems –– especially individualism and anthropocentrism. These are modern …
-
The Hybrid Spirit Animating Chinese Pentecostals in Malaysia
… the work of Homi Bhabha that the construction and performance of hybrid identities act as a form of resistance for marginalized communities against structures of oppression. While this study supports this assertion, it also critiques how hybridity fails to address issues of unequal power …
-
Partner selection in post-reform China: Power, privilege, and norms
The nature of marriage is both economic and social, making it an ideal object for one to study the individual behaviors impacted by social transformations that started from the economic realm but ultimately altered the social structure. Market transition theory depicted the transformation in China …
-
Media Memories: The Newseum Story of News
This document explains the origins and work of the Newseum, with an appeal to the idea that the mythology of the civic compact that undergirds press power and privilege requires ongoing maintenance. Through an analysis of the Newseum's origins, aspirations, methods, and location within a broader …
-
Registered practical nurses’ (in post RPN-BScN education) experiences of nurse-to- nurse conflict in the workplace
… of the RPN; the in-between space; hierarchy, power, and privilege; and professional development and a drive for change. The findings of this research highlighted how broader contextual factors intersected and influenced conflict between nurses, and how experiencing nurse-to-nurse conflict …
-
It's Different People Who Are Down Here: Portraits of Three Young Women of Color Who Work in a Science Museum
Eldora, Neethi and Seraphina are three young women who work as science interpreters at a large metropolitan museum. Each woman began her tenure at the age of 15, as part of an employment program for low-income and minority youth, and have since grown to become leaders within the program. Using …
-
Reading and Responding: Finding and Making Meaning in the Life Writing of Diasporic Iranian Jewish Women
… differentially imagined their diasporic lives and travels, and how they have in turn been imagined and accepted or rejected by their audiences. In the first chapter, I use “home” as a lens for understanding three distinct life writing texts, showing how the authors write about what it means to …
-
Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… Papers, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations--the way in which masculinity and authorial subjectivity in Dickens's novels are bound to the figure of the circle, an image which functions both as a figure for an ideal narcissistic unity and as a sign of the individual's …
-
Student-Teacher Collaboration and Exploring Student Voice to Improve Classroom Instruction and Action Planning in Grade Nine Health Education
… of this action research study was to understand my role as a health educator by encouraging student voice in my grade nine health classrooms. My intent was to collaborate and facilitate student-centered learning with grade nine students to produce meaningful action/advocacy plans in health …
-
"We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada
This dissertation is an interrogation of colonial and racial formations in the making of white settler states. Through an intersectional and transnational exploration of proximities between South Asians and Indigenous peoples in Canada, the dissertation unravels South Asian complicities in ongoing …
-
UNEQUAL RIGHTS AND CONSTRAINED CHOICE: NARRATING WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES WITH IDENTITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, AND ABORTION
… (such as race, nationality, class, spirituality, and geographic location) in the construction of their experiences. By giving voice to women's experiences and placing this voice in a historical context of differential racialization, as well as within both Critical Race Feminism (CRF) and …
-
From ability to (dis)ability: a bourdieudian analysis and case study of the experiences of young adults in utilising post-16 educational provision in Northern Ireland
… under-represented throughout further and higher education settings. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory of habitus, capital and field, this study explores the practices of domination and oppression which have prevented young (dis)abled people from progressing to third-level …
-
English and Afrikaans in District Six : a sociolinguistic study
This is a descriptive study of the use of English and Afrikaans in Cape Town's District Six - a large inner-city neighbourhood, first settled in the 1840s and, by the implementation of a series of laws, depopulated and almost entirely razed during the 1970s. Each language has a history of having …
-
Race Matters: Towards a Structural Understanding of the Management of Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder in Black Adolescents
… from racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, health care service utilization, health behaviors, structural racism and medicalization, this study examines the health behavior and health care utilization practices of Black people, analyzing the avenues through which racism …
-
Principals' Engagement with The Ontario Leadership Framework to Enact Social Justice Leadership: Reflection, Resistance, and Resilience
… — is needed to address the increasing diversity and marginalization in Ontario schools. In 2009, Realizing the Promise of Diversity: Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy policy was released. While The Ontario Leadership Framework was developed to support and sustain quality …
-
The fantasy of masculinity: a study of masculinity in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas
… interrogates the relationship between sex work and masculinity. The project was guided by the following question: how do female strippers and male customers (co-)construct and negotiate masculinities in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas? Based on this question and 13 months …
Page 1 of 2