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Guillermo-Wann, Chelsea; Johnston, Marc P. – Online Submission, 2012
Although recent research on multiraciality exposes mixed race experiences in the post-Civil Rights era, higher education scholarship still seems to lack a framework that connects two racial systems of oppression that inform and reinforce each other: traditional racisms targeting monoracially-constructed groups, and monoracism targeting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Civil Rights, Student Diversity, Educational Environment
Butcher, Jennifer; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2008
The belief that there is one right way or method of inquiry to pursue truth as it is constructed has been rejected by postmodernism. Postmodernism challenges and opens up the central idea that only one set of limits are possible in supporting professional practice. Postmodernism designs a way to look at concepts through the context of meaning. The…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Models, Academic Achievement, Public Education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb – Online Submission, 2008
We introduce a simple empirical model that assumes a positive stigma (or norm) towards child labor that is common in some developing countries. We then illustrate our positive stigma model using data from Guatemala. Controlling for several child- and household-level characteristics, we use two instruments for measuring stigma: a child's indigenous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Child Labor, Attitudes