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Morales-Chicas, Jessica; Gomez, Mariana; Gussman, Melissa; Kouyoumdjian, Claudia – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2022
In the United States, Latin@s remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce despite being a growing population in postsecondary institutions and across the country. Mentorship is needed to foster agency and leadership to build more Latin@ representation in STEM. In this study, we used a focus group and interviews to examine the mentee and mentor…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Hispanic American Students, Mentors, Student Experience
Brewster, Kendra R. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2018
Critical service learning requires that students grapple with power even as they negotiate with discourses that frame service as transformative for others, without the reciprocal effect of service learners being transformed. To highlight microprocesses in power, this article uses figured worlds to explore the positional identities of service…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Power Structure, Identification, College Students
Banks, Joy – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2017
This investigation employs Disability Critical Race Studies as a theoretical framework to determine the interdependence of racism and ableism in school settings. African American male students with learning disabilities are queried about their interpretations of special education placement and labeling while attempting to secure educational…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Learning Disabilities, Labeling (of Persons)
Dessel, Adrienne; Westmoreland, Amy; Gutiérrez, Lorraine M. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2016
Sexual-minority college students continue to experience heterosexism in the form of heterosexist and biased language from peers. Religion has been identified as a predictor of sexual prejudice among college students. Yet there is limited research on the intersection of race, religion, and heterosexism, and on interventions designed to address this…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, African American Students, Student Attitudes, Christianity
Madden, Meredith – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
How do critical pedagogies promote undergraduate students' awareness of social class, social class identity, and social class inequalities in education? How do undergraduate students experience class consciousness-raising in the intergroup dialogue classroom? This qualitative study explores undergraduate students' class consciousness-raising in an…
Descriptors: Social Class, Consciousness Raising, Qualitative Research, Student Journals
Matos, Jennifer M. D. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
This article utilizes Yosso's (2005) community cultural framework and the six forms of cultural capital (aspirational, familial, linguistic, navigational, resistant, social) as corrective reframes of the cultural deficit model. Although the prevailing literature on Latina/o parents and families portray this population as being unmotivated and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
Wagner, Rachel – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
The balance of empirical research on college men is a portrait of their maladaptive and antisocial attitudes and behaviors. Studies have demonstrated the correlation between college men's problematic behavior and adherence to gender role traditionalism. Educators have few composites of men's prosocial behavior nor the masculine ideology that…
Descriptors: College Students, Males, Masculinity, Student Adjustment
Krings, Amy; Austic, Elizabeth A.; Gutiérrez, Lorraine M.; Dirksen, Kaleigh E. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
This cross-sectional, repeated measures, quasi-experimental study evaluates changes in college students' commitment toward, and confidence in, political participation, civic engagement, and multicultural activism. Our sample (n = 653) consisted of college students in a Midwestern university who participated in one of three social justice education…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Social Justice, Introductory Courses, Psychology
Lamont, Sarah; Collet, Bruce – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
The aftermath of 9/11 and the current surge of revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East have caused Muslim Americans to be either demonized or forgotten altogether, despite the significance of their everyday navigation of both Islamic and democratic values and unique efforts toward identity construction. The neglect of the Muslim American…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islam, Democracy, College Students
Stubbs, Benjamin B.; Sallee, Margaret W. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
Although Muslims have a significant presence at American universities, they are largely ignored by campus policies and resources and may find it difficult to reconcile their university experience with their religious values and practices. Using bicultural acculturation as a theoretical lens along with interviews and document analysis, this…
Descriptors: Muslims, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment
King, Patricia M.; Baxter Magolda, Marcia B.; Masse, Johanna C. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2011
This study explores college students' reactions to engaging in experiences with diverse others that students found uncomfortable, interactions that disrupted students' current beliefs or values. Our examination of these experiences was grounded in theory and research on intergroup contact and anxiety and developmental models of self-authorship…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Intergroup Relations, Anxiety, College Students
Vaccaro, Annemarie – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2010
This article presents qualitative results from a campus climate study at one predominately white university. Data analysis uncovered "what lies beneath" a seemingly positive campus climate. Gender differences in survey responses suggest that men and women experienced the climate in vastly different ways. Additionally, lack of deep diversity…
Descriptors: College Environment, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Student Attitudes
Carolissen, Ronelle; Rohleder, Poul; Bozalek, Vivienne; Swartz, Leslie; Leibowitz, Brenda – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2010
The term "community" holds historical connotations of political, economic, and social disadvantage in South Africa. Many South African students tend to interpret the term "community" in ways that suggest that community and community psychology describe the experiences of exclusively poor, black people. Critical pedagogies that…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Psychology
Rodriguez, Louie F. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2009
Hip hop culture is typically excluded from conventional educational spaces within the U.S. Drawing on the experiences of an educator who works with urban high school students and university level pre- and in-service educators, this article examines the role of hip hop culture for student engagement in two settings--an alternative high school…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, High Schools, Urban Youth, Popular Culture
Zamudio, Margaret; Rios, Francisco; Jaime, Angela M. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2008
This article examines a critical cultural thinking framework advanced to develop an analysis of difference as it pertains to race, gender, and sexuality. We examine student journals to document their use (or lack therein) of these critical cultural thinking concepts and how these concepts influence students' understanding of difference. While…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Student Journals, Sexuality, Thinking Skills
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