Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education

2015-06 Education

Author : Ana M. Martínez-Alemán
Release : 2015-06
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education written by Ana M. Martínez-Alemán. This book was released on 2015-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship. Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long overdue—contribution to the development of the field. The contributors argue that, far from being overly abstract, critical tools and methods are central to contemporary scholarship and can have practical policy implications when brought to the study of higher education. They argue that critical research design and critical theories help scholars see beyond the normative models and frameworks that have long limited our understanding of students, faculty, institutions, the organization and governance of higher education, and the policies that shape the postsecondary arena. A rigorous and invaluable guide for researchers seeking innovative approaches to higher education and the morass of traditionally functionalist, rational, and neoliberal thinking that mars the field, this book is also essential for instructors who wish to incorporate the lessons of critical scholarship into their course development, curriculum, and pedagogy.

Critical Issues in Special Education

2004 Business & Economics

Author : Audrey McCray Sorrells
Release : 2004
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Critical Issues in Special Education written by Audrey McCray Sorrells. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the contributions of prominent researchers, teacher educators, policy makers, teachers, and parents on current and emerging issues facing the field of special education, and their critical thinking on how to ensure that students with disabilities receive free appropriate education in the least restrictive environment. The authors present divergent perspectives on the issues and concerns, including: (a) the emergence of more constructivistic instruction approaches that focus increasingly on higher order thinking; (b) new organization structures for administering schools; (c) standards-based reform and the use of high stakes testing for evaluating students; (d) the changing population and the increasingly diverse demographics of the students served in the public schools; (e) the onset of the information age and the increasingly visible role of technology in the schools and the workplace; (f) concerns about student discipline and violence in schools; (g) the continuing shortage of qualified and certified special education teachers, and (h) trends in higher education focused on the reform of teacher education such as changing standards for knowledge and skills, preparing teachers for changing roles as mentors, and changes in the teacher education process that may have precipitated or influenced issues in the field. For special education providers such as parents and teachers and for anyone interested in the field of special education.

The Pedagogy of College Access Programs

2008

Author : Janice Bloom
Release : 2008
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Download or read book The Pedagogy of College Access Programs written by Janice Bloom. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical essay is based on ethnographic research that followed thirteen students (from different social classes and racial background) through the college application process during their senior year of high school (Bloom, 2007). The study's purpose was to understand the accumulation and use of social and cultural capital by critically analyzing the resources first-generation students and families appear to lack. Moreover, the study was concerned with identifying important social and cultural resources that middle- and upper-middle-class students and families bring to the college transition. This essay asks: What are the processes through which students develop concrete college aspirations and a sense of efficacy in pursuing those aspirations? How is an understanding of the landscape of higher education (the differences between public and private, small and large, liberal arts or vocational colleges, etc.) built over time, and what exactly leads students to consider--or not consider--more selective institutions and schools across a greater geographic range? What kinds of social networks are needed to successfully navigate the application process? In each of these areas, the study attempts to move beyond noting differences across race and class to exploring the processes through which these differences are created. Three specific areas in relation to access to dominant social and cultural capital are addressed: (1) What Appadurai (2004) has termed the "capacity to aspire" by students from differing backgrounds, as it relates to higher education; (2) Students' knowledge of the landscape of higher education and their choice process as they consider a range of institutions; and (3) The ways that students and families navigate the actual college application process. Finally, the essay addresses the pedagogy behind many existing college access programs. Specifically, it assesses programs' knowledge about crucial but subtle differences in resources across race and class, including ability to provide true access to the kinds of institutional supports that middle- and upper-income students have. Moreover, the ways that college access programs do (or do not) position first-generation college-going students as actors and owners of their own transition process are addressed. In doing so, this essay hopes to raise important--but currently unasked--questions about the pedagogy of college access programs, and illuminate why some current programs may not be successfully ameliorating existing inequities. (Contains 3 footnotes.) [This essay was written with the assistance of Michelle Fine, Stephen Porter, Laura Rendon, and Lori Chajet.].

Critical Literacy and Urban Youth

2015-07-22 Education

Author : Ernest Morrell
Release : 2015-07-22
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Critical Literacy and Urban Youth written by Ernest Morrell. This book was released on 2015-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. Through cases, an articulated process, and a theory of literacy education and social change, Morrell extends the conversation among literacy educators about what constitutes critical literacy while also examining implications for practice in secondary and postsecondary American educational contexts. This book is distinguished by its weaving together of theory and practice. Morrell begins by arguing for a broader definition of the "critical" in critical literacy – one that encapsulates the entire Western philosophical tradition as well as several important "Othered" traditions ranging from postcolonialism to the African-American tradition. Next, he looks at four cases of critical literacy pedagogy with urban youth: teaching popular culture in a high school English classroom; conducting community-based critical research; engaging in cyber-activism; and doing critical media literacy education. Lastly, he returns to theory, first considering two areas of critical literacy pedagogy that are still relatively unexplored: the importance of critical reading and writing in constituting and reconstituting the self, and critical writing that is not just about coming to a critical understanding of the world but that plays an explicit and self-referential role in changing the world. Morrell concludes by outlining a grounded theory of critical literacy pedagogy and considering its implications for literacy research, teacher education, classroom practice, and advocacy work for social change.

Critical College Access

2005 Urban youth

Author : Anthony Michael Collatos
Release : 2005
Genre : Urban youth
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