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ERIC Number: ED555295
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 263
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-1-3034-3057-2
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Diversity Education Goals in Higher Education: A Policy Discourse Analysis
Swain, Stuart Glen
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Maine
Many colleges and universities have established student learning outcomes for diversity education as a part of their broad undergraduate education program. These education goals, developed for assessment purposes or other policies, reflect a range of possible diversity and multicultural learning purposes. The emphasis on some purposes, and the language used to articulate those purposes, potentially focuses or constrains practice. Using a policy discourse analysis methodology, I explore the articulated diversity education goals and the discourses and subject positions they advance. In particular, I consider the institution-wide diversity education goals established at 50 public liberal arts colleges and universities across the United States. I present evidence that dominant discourses of Market and Harmony, weakly countered by alternative discourses of social change, conflict, and disciplinary challenge, produce a limited range of available policy themes and subject positions. I argue that the dominant discourses constrain understandings of the opportunity for diversity education, and they potentially narrow the educational practices available, with impacts especially on the subject positions accessible to students. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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