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Monica Bixby Radu – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2024
This article explores reality TV's value in teaching sociological concepts and theories for a better understanding contemporary society. Reality TV serves as a rich canvas for illustrating key tenets of major sociological theories such as structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. By analyzing reality TV through a…
Descriptors: Sociology, Television Viewing, Teaching Methods, Cultural Influences
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Flint, Maureen A. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This paper examines how histories of racism, slavery, and white supremacy continue to resonate in the present through the creation and curation of an audio compilation of student narratives. Grounded in posthuman theories, the sound compilation of layered student narratives offers a starting point for exploring the relational, embodied, and…
Descriptors: Imagination, Futures (of Society), Humanism, Race
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Batsleer, Janet – Education Sciences, 2021
This essay offers a broken narrative concerning the early history of anti-oppressive practice as an approach in the U.K. to youth and community work and the struggles over this in the context of UK higher education between the 1960's and the early 2000's. Educating informal educators as youth and community workers in the UK has been a site of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning, Informal Education
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Harris, Jessica C.; Patton, Lori D. – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Grounded in Black feminist and critical race theories, legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term "intersectionality" to the academy in 1989 to demonstrate how U.S. structures, such as the legal system, and discourses of resistance, such as feminism and anti-racism, often frame identities as isolated and mutually exclusive,…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Feminism, Critical Theory, Higher Education
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de Reizabal, Margarita Lorenzo; Benito Gómez, Manuel – International Journal of Music Education, 2020
In the field of higher music education conservatories, and more specifically in the so-called 'classical music', the first steps towards research regarding entrepreneurship are being taken, although the main obstacles to overcome are still at a conceptual level (to define what is entrepreneurship in this field, what the profile of a musician…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Entrepreneurship, Music Education, Higher Education
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Osley-Thomas, Robert – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2020
Did the liberal art disciplines at American universities have the highest failure rate between the 1970s and the early 2000s? Important theoretical traditions indeed believe that the liberal arts are the most threatened disciplines in the academy, while other theories have differing views. This paper reexamines the vulnerability of academic…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Departments, Liberal Arts, Higher Education
Mattei, Paola, Ed.; Dumay, Xavier, Ed.; Mangez, Eric, Ed.; Behrend, Jacqueline, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2023
Globalization has become one of the most recurrent concepts in social and political sciences. More often than not, however, the concept is handled without much of a properly articulated theory capable of explaining its historical origin and expansion. For education researchers attempting to elucidate how global changes and processes affect their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Guides, Social Theories, Social Change
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Parris, LaRose – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2018
Academic administrators are witnessing unprecedented assaults on national humanities funding that would have been unthinkable three decades ago. Many, if not most, academic administrators and policy makers now view the cornerstone of liberal arts education as an educational anachronism, obsolete intellectualism that holds neither import nor…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Critical Theory, Race
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Gibbs, Thea – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2021
Universities rely heavily on co-operation between staff to function effectively. They are complex, interdependent and highly relational organisations which often appear to run on goodwill. Organisational structures, systems and processes play an important role in the delivery of professional support services, but working relationships between…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Interprofessional Relationship, Higher Education, Administrative Organization
Jessica S. B. Newman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Writing center consultations are built of writer and consultant relationships, interactions, and differences. Listening is a stance that facilitates navigation of these differences that are so inherent to writing centers. Yet listening has long been undervalued in Western society and in rhetoric and composition and writing center scholarship. To…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Consultation Programs, Listening Skills
Anderson, Maria Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines the academic status of dance as a discipline of higher education through the lens of the Western mind-body problem. Such an examination is pursued based on arguments suggesting dualism obscures the significance of the body, art, and aesthetics for educational ends. The primary interpretative lens used to explore the…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Higher Education, Cognitive Processes
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Makkawy, Amin; Moreman, Shane T. – Communication Education, 2019
This critical communication pedagogy study consists of a cripistemological analysis of two prominent communication theory textbooks to better understand the nondisableist assumptions embedded within these textbooks and, by extension, our field's theories. Conceiving of the university classroom as an educational cultural performance, this study…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Textbooks, Disabilities, Epistemology
Jensen-Ives, Johanne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This qualitative case study examined the practices used by higher education development professionals and institutions to better understand how a donor's race is considered as part of the fundraising process. It employed a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework (Delgado, 2001) designed to combine the scholarship on fund development and race. The…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Donors, Racial Bias
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Jason Cong Lin; Yuting Shen – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Since 1840, Chinese political leaders have struggled to draw effectively from Western culture without abandoning the Chinese essence in their design of higher education. In this paper, we use cultural nationalism as the theoretical framework to examine how Chinese political leaders have responded to this challenge. Our analysis shows that cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Politics of Education, Cultural Maintenance
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Sarah Elaine Eaton – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to explore theoretical and practical considerations for decolonizing academic integrity. I explore values associated with academic integrity, including both Western and Indigenous perspectives. I draw from scholarship on decolonizing research methods and practices, contemplating the transferability to academic…
Descriptors: Integrity, Ethics, Theory Practice Relationship, Decolonization
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