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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"whiteness theory"”.
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White or Wrong: Application of Whiteness Theory in First-Year Composition Classes
In this thesis, I claim that applying Whiteness Theory to instruct a composition class will allow students to understand their subjectivity, and this understanding may in turn improve their writing. To make this argument, I provide examples of two assignments that use Whiteness Theory will allow …
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A Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Theory Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Racialized Practices in a Literacy Across the Curriculum Course
… study drew on the premises of critical race theory and critical whiteness theory to define racialized practices. The study began with these theories' assumptions that race is an important social construction in U.S. society that is used to position people hierarchically, especially oppressing …
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Racialized Faculty and Administrators in Ontario Colleges: A Case Study of Three Ontario Colleges
… and individual racism), along with Critical Race Theory and Whiteness Theory, guides the analysis of the data. The findings exposed several barriers in Ontario colleges that affect the hiring of racialized faculty and administrators. Ubiquitous in all three colleges was proceduralism. Hiring …
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White Clinicians’ Way of Being with Their Black Clients
… hold racial bias according to critical whiteness theory (Olcon, Gilbert, & Pulliam, 2019), navigate this within their therapeutic work and relationships as clinicians with Black clients. Using the framework of clinician way of being, the conscious attitudes and beliefs that clinicians …
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Becoming an educator: identity, music education, and privilege
… and memories through the lens of critical whiteness theory, this study interrogates the social assumptions that may be placed on at-risk students, exploring how these assumptions function within the context of access within our current music education structures, and investigates the ways …
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Whiteness in a hidden space—unspoken but still there, in a private space, the classroom
… female novice teacher were aware of their own Whiteness and privilege, and were prepared to teach in classrooms where the student population consists mostly of Black students. The conceptual framework that guided this study was Critical Whiteness Theory, which has its origins in Critical Race …
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“Trying Your Best in That Moment with That Person”: Maintaining Feelings of Efficacy and Relevance in the Therapeutic Relationship with Community Mental Health Clients Experiencing Psychosis
… care. This dissertation proposes a grounded theory based on 16 participant interviews with community mental health clinicians in Philadelphia who have worked in outpatient settings with clients with psychosis. Using the frameworks of self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1977), the common factors in …
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Female teachers, whiteness, and the quest for cultural proficiency
… proficiency mirrors cultural proficiency theory but lacks one key component: self-reflection in regard to whiteness. The interviewed teachers struggled with the theoretical foundations of critical whiteness theory and cultural proficiency, but they believed that the goal of cultural …
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Discourses of Social Inclusion in Sport and Recreation in Rural Ontario
… I sought to critically examine discourses of Whiteness in programming and policy in rural settings. Therefore, in this research, I explored two questions: 1) How do sport and recreation practitioners and managers understand social inclusion in and through sport and recreation in their rural …
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“Enacting something I didn’t believe in”: Clinician Experiences of Dissonance Related to Power and Oppression in Community Mental Health
… conceptual framework centered on critical whiteness theory (Applebaum, 2010; Frankenberg, 1993; Hook, 2011; Sullivan, 2014). I conclude that dissonance can be generative if clinicians are able to sit with it in moments where it cannot be reduced. These findings suggest the importance of …
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Identifying and addressing white supremacy in social work education
… by proposing the incorporation of critical whiteness theory (CWT) in social work education. As a subject area, critical whiteness studies emerged in the late 1990s as an expansion of critical race theory. A variety of disciplines have incorporated critical whiteness studies as a framework …
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Faculty Perspectives about the Impacts of Implementing Indigenous Content at Humber College in Ontario, Canada
This qualitative, multi-method study examined course outlines through a Qualitative Document Analysis (QDA), which then led to the Qualitative Interviews (QI) of faculty members who taught Indigenous content within their academic courses. The initial analysis focused on 180 course outlines from 8 …