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Krawczyk, Michal – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
In this study, data on grades awarded for bachelor and master theses at a large Polish university were used to identify possible discrimination on gender or physical attractiveness. The focus is on the gap between the grades awarded by the advisor (who knows the student personally) and the referee (who typically does not, so that gender is less…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grades (Scholastic), Correlation, College Students
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Cameron, Erin – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Given that postsecondary institutions are increasingly seen as sites to promote health, critical scholars are calling attention to how the contemporary Western weight-centred health paradigm reinforces a "size matters" message that is fueling harmful attitudes towards and judgments of bodies. As such, research that highlights strategies…
Descriptors: Obesity, Scholarship, Health Promotion, Higher Education
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Highberg, Nels P. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2010
In this article, the author intends to focus on the ruptures that sometimes emerge when his outsider and insider identities clash, shift places, or simply exist together in the classrooms he inhabits as teacher. He provides what Jerrie Cobb Scott calls an extended "think about" where he unpacks his own uncritical dys-consciousness and how it has…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Student Attitudes, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship
Heinze, Peter – Multicultural Education, 2008
There are a variety of methods by which the themes of White privilege and racism can be presented to White students. By using the concept of racial identity a continuum of racism can be considered. Furthermore, addressing White privilege and racism in the context of a multicultural psychology course allows White students to have a greater…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Race, Racial Identification, White Students