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Finnessy, Patrick – Teaching Education, 2016
This study was concerned with an examination of the heteropatriarchy as it was performed by six self-identified heterosexual male English teachers and two high school administrators in the United States and Canada. These educators explained their efforts regarding their own thinking about identity and curriculum and their attempts to teach a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Teacher Attitudes, Sexual Orientation
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Dávila, Brianne – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
This research draws upon critical race theory (CRT) to explore the experiences of Latina/o students in special education. It seeks to extend the theoretical construct of racial microaggressions and illustrate the additional layer of disability as I present data that are particular to the context of special education and the assigned label of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Disabilities, Ethnography
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Chapman, Thandeka K.; Bhopal, Kalwant K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2013
Commonsense understandings of school practices have historically painted parents of color as inattentive and non-participatory actors in public school settings. Racist implementations of policy and individual actions, based on teacher ideology and deficit paradigms of race, force parents of color to take an oppositional stance in public school…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Racial Bias, Parenting Styles, Minority Groups
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Philip, Thomas M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
This article makes a unique contribution to the literature on teachers' racialized sensemaking by proposing a framework of "ideology in pieces" that synthesizes Hall's (1982, 1996) theory of ideology and diSessa's (1993) theory of conceptual change. Hall's theory of ideology enables an examination of teachers' sensemaking as situated within a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Race, Ideology, Racial Factors
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Rush, S. Craig; Wheeler, Joanna – Disability & Society, 2011
Research has demonstrated that humans form perceptions as a result of a variety of complex cognitive processes. The purpose of this pilot study is to demonstrate the potential use of perceptual mapping as a means to capture the perceptions of groups of individuals who work closely with people with disabilities and examine their perceptions in a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disabilities, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes
Tyree, Alexander K., Jr. – 1991
Classical commitment studies are either sociologically oriented or based in the psychological empirical research tradition. A review of the literature reveals agreement on the multidimensionality and the contextual complexity of commitment, two principles which guide the hypotheses of the present study. This study uses the Administrator and…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Educational Environment, Factor Analysis, High Schools