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Gorski, Paul C. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2019
Activist burnout scholarship has inadequately considered challenges marginalized-identity activists, such as racial justice activists of color, experience in the course of their activism -- challenges from which privileged identity activists, such as white racial justice activists, are protected. This article attempts to address this gap through a…
Descriptors: Activism, Burnout, Racial Bias, Social Justice
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Gorski, Paul C. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2015
Activist burnout, which causes activists to disengage from their activism, is a formidable barrier to the sustainability of social justice movements, including those focused on social justice in educational contexts. However, the cultures of these movements often disregard the importance of self-care, seeing it as self-indulgence, putting…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Burnout, Interviews
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Gorski, Paul C.; Chen, Cher – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
Despite the growing body of scholarship on burnout among social justice activists who are working on a variety of issues, from labor rights to queer justice, little attention has been paid to burnout among those whose activism focuses on issues of educational justice. To begin to address this omission and understand what supports might help social…
Descriptors: Activism, Burnout, Equal Education, Social Justice