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Leibowitz, Brenda – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
The study presents a framework for investigating the powerful resources within learners' educational biographies, which, from their own accounts, appear to influence their engagement with teaching and learning practices. The research framework stresses the material, social and cultural influences on a learner's biography and the need for…
Descriptors: Interviews, Biographies, Cultural Influences, College Faculty
Pollard, Mignonne Y. – 1997
This paper examines how the educational philosophies of two representative African American women university professors were influenced by multiple sojourns between Africa and North America. Two African American women born in the 1940s were interviewed about their early educational experiences, racial identity, and experiences in Africa. Each…
Descriptors: Biographies, Blacks, College Faculty, Cultural Influences