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Making a Place for Voice: Stories of Silencing and Speaking Out in Academia
Get PDF In this article, we, the authors, revisit an event that occurred eighteen years ago in an academic setting and take a critical, retrospective look at how those events align with and reflect current situations in academia. In particular, the article draws on a research project that was guided by the authors and conducted by a group of recently-graduated teachers about their experiences of being silenced and unheard in an institutional environment as student teachers. The article addresses the aftermath and repercussions that resulted from the dissemination of the research as a presentation at a conference. The presentation revealed some raw and uncensored ‘truths’ or stories drawn from the teachers’ narratives. Continuing to draw on, as well as extending, the process of daredevil research (Jipson & Paley, 1997) and using a critical post-formal and post-structural lens, this writing, eighteen years later, is an endeavour to reveal, remember, rediscover, and uncover an event that occurred nearly twenty years ago; an event that, at the time, we had anticipated being a catalyst for changes in teacher education by encouraging the group of teachers to draw on elements of critical pedagogy in their presentation, while cognizant that this approach to pedagogy was very new, if not unknown, to teacher education at the time and thus presented a risk in terms of others’ understanding of the presentation.Keywords: voice, institutional silencing, student experience, academia, powe
“Where are We from?”: A Critical Community Autoethnography of Place, Space, and Belonging by Ph.D. International Female Student-Scholar-Activists in the U.S.
Get PDFConstructing an identity as an international female student-scholar-activist in the U.S. has a lot to do with cultivating sense of place, belonging, and fostering new communities. Coming from China, Colombia, Israel and South Korea, the authors of this article share their testimonios of what it meant for them--individually and collectively--to be international female students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in the U.S. while maintaining to be scholar-activists. By employing the methodology of critical community autoethnography, the authors reflect upon and analyze their individual and collective experiences which cannot be separated from where they are from, where they are at – and where they are going.
Creating Culturally Safe Learning Spaces and Indigenizing Higher Education
Get PDFThe Indigenous Nations Library Program is a unique library program where advocating and creating culturally safe places for Indigenous people at the University of New Mexico is its hallmark mission and purpose. This article highlights why there is a need for creating culturally safe learning spaces is important. Furthermore, indigenizing higher education through spatial autonomy is a successful tool for integrating Western-academic thought with Indigenous livelihood
2018 Entrelib Conference Program
No full textProgram from the 2018 Entrlib Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Each and Everyday, Love us Free: Critical Pedagogy as a Living-Loving Praxis
Get PDFAccording to Giroux (2011) we can, through critical pedagogy, engage the world as “an object of critical analysis” and as a place of “hopeful transformation” (p. 14). Giroux’s (2011) approach requires building and maintaining spaces where “the complexity of knowledge, culture, values and social issues can be explored in open and critical dialogue” (p. 124). Through these spaces, he argues, we are able to work to understand and disrupt oppressive power dynamics kept in place by systems of domination and control and move toward struggling for a more socially just world (Giroux, 2011, p. 7).bell hooks’ (2010) understanding that “love matters and that it brings strength and power (pp. 166-167) can contribute to our understanding of these spaces. hooks (2000) contends that “great social movements for freedom and justice” promote “a love ethic”, one in which we “utilize all the dimensions of love-care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge-in our everyday lives” (p. 94).Ascribing to the critical pedagogical view that education should be a “critical practice” (Freire, 2001, p. 30) in which those involved “make ourselves different tomorrow from what we are today” (Shapiro, 2012, p. 50), “transform the world we live in” (hooks, 2010, p. 188) and employ an understanding of the power and ethic of love as integral to “working for a collective good” (hooks, 2000, p. 214), I argue that we should engage critical pedagogy as living-loving praxis in all the places of lives, including the personal and romantic.
Learning to Teach in Space: Design Principles for Faculty Development in Active Learning Classrooms
Get PDFWe describe four design principles that guide a program focused on supporting faculty pedagogy in active learning spaces: the Mosaic Fellows Program at Indiana University. The design principles focus on exploring a variety of classrooms with faculty Fellows, engaging Fellows’ individual goals, creating shared learning experiences, and encouraging Fellows to share their insights with a larger university audience. We discuss each design principle in turn, explaining the rationale behind the principle and then giving specific examples of the design principle in practice. We conclude with implications for faculty development about active learning spaces at other institutions
Implementing a Lifetime Performance Index of Products with a Two-Parameter Rayleigh Distribution Under a Progressively type II Right Censored Sample
Get PDFIn manufacturing, quality control is a process that ensures customers receive products free from defects and meet their needs. Process capability analysis has been widely applied in the field of quality control to find out how well a given process meets a set of specification limits. The lifetime performance index \begin {math} C_L ,\end {math} a type of process capability index is used to measure the larger-the-better type quality characteristics. Under the assumption of Two-Parameter Rayleigh Distribution, this study constructs a maximum likelihood estimator of \begin {math} C_L \end {math} based on the progressively type II right censored sample. The maximum likelihood estimator of \begin {math} C_L \end {math} is then utilized to develop the new hypothesis testing procedure. The testing procedure can be employed the testing procedure to determine whether the lifetime of a product adheres to the required level
Journal Style and Template File
No full textIn this short template article we provide an illustrative example on the usage the basic style file for manuscripts submitted to the North Carolina Journal of Mathematics and Statistics. We show how to prepare a title page, explain how include bibliography and show few other simple and standard LATEX commands. Please follow closely. The journal style file builds on the amsart.cls style, so if everything else fails, your manuscript should at least work for that style