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An olive branch grown from black soil: Teaching truth in the time of erasure
Get PDFWhen history is rewritten to comfort the powerful, classrooms become battlegrounds for justice and truth. This piece examines the political erasure of Black history in Florida, where teachers are directed to frame slavery as beneficial to the enslaved. It names the weight of the Black Tax, the exhaustion of racial battle fatigue, and the ease of white fatigue that too often excuses silence, while calling on ancestral memory as a guide for truth telling. Teaching, as bell hooks reminds us, remains an act of liberation even under constraint. Reclaiming the classroom as a site of resistance and protection, the author extends an Olive Branch Petition for our time, not of quiet compliance, but of peace rooted in justice and honesty. Without truth, there is no peace. Without peace, there is no justice
Left foot, right foot: Progress and precarity in rural STEM education
Get PDFIn a time of increased political pressure on educational efforts that are deemed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), it can be very easy to get discouraged. This essay uses an example of a rural STEM education grant that was identified on a DEI list as an example of how these challenges can create an opportunity for renewed hope in the value of meaningful engagement with schools and communities
Supporting virtual international students: A comparative study of pandemic experiences in host and home counties
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered educational experiences for international students. This comparative phenomenological study examined the experiences of six Chinese international students during the pandemic, analyzing how residency in a host or home country influenced their opportunities, challenges, coping strategies, and overall experiences. Thematic analysis highlighted the need for support mechanisms, providing recommendations for educators, policymakers, and mental health professionals to address the unique educational needs of international learners in virtual settings
The importance of place: A backyard researcher’s journey of illuminating voice in a rural midwest community
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The active interview: Applications for crime and deviance research
Get PDFFor decades, there has existed a disjuncture between the intentions and practices of most qualitative researchers. Many enlist the buzz words of symbolic interactionism or other interpretivist traditions, but a select few remain true to these maxims as they move forward with their data collection and analysis efforts. Holstien and Gubrium (1995) recently presented a provocative new perspective on face-to-face interviewing that specifically seeks to narrow the gap between qualitative theory and methodology. The approach is called the active interview. Building on the tenets of symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, phenomenology, and post-modernism, the active interview directs attention towards the nature and dynamics of face-to-face interview-based social science research. The active approach to interviewing conceptualizes the discursive exchange process as a dynamic occasion of meaning negotiation, not a passive question and answer session. The reflexive interviewing strategy that follows is keenly sensitive to issues such as the narrative resources of both the interviewer and respondent, the ways in which a sense of collaborative meaning is negotiated within the interview interaction, and the potential for a single respondent to engage in occasions of multivocality. This paper explores various issues and implications that this new orientation, especially as they relate to crime and deviance research. We provide a small-scale research application to illustrate how issues such as respondent selection, interview format, non-conversational aspects of interviewing, and the types of research questions that are posed and pursued by crime and deviance researchers are potentially affected
Race and domestic violence: A comparative study of African American, Latina, and white women
Get PDFThis exploratory study used standardized interview surveys to examine the differences in demographic characteristics, social support networks, marital power, and abusive experiences among White, African American, and Latinas/Hispanic women who sought assistance from a local shelter (N=41 ). The main research objective was to examine racial differences in the experiences of and responses to intimate relationship violence. Findings derived from ANOVA and a discriminant function analysis identified a set oftwo variables that characterized the group differences: help from friends and the number of times in the shelter. However, there were no statistically significant differences in demographic variables, marital power, and abusive behaviors among the three groups. White women were most likely to seek help from friends and use shelters among these three groups. Research implications and suggestions for further research are discussed