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Darren Ilett – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study uses the critical race theory approach of counter-storytelling to explore scholarly identity development among first-generation, low-income, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and women students transitioning to graduate school. Data included interview transcripts, observation notes, and student assignments from a program…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Story Telling, First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students
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Maritz, Jeanette; Prinsloo, Paul – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
In the social imaginary of higher education, there are many mutually constitutive forces shaping academic identities, such as academics' habitus, dispositions, race, gender and student expectations. Our queer academic identities are furthermore robustly intertwined with, and emerging within, cultural, political and economic histories and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Postdoctoral Education, Graduate Study
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Carter, Candice C. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
In this article, I report research on representations of immigrant identities in one university where teacher candidates matriculated in undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The case study occurred in a community where immigrants were highly visible. A content analysis of curriculum for teacher preparation provided a view of factors that…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Teacher Education Programs, Student Development, Criticism
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Bogo, Marion; And Others – Journal of Social Work Education, 1995
A survey of 180 social work master's degree students in 1 school at the beginning and end of an academic year found that most students are still attuned to social work's traditional mission, but that graduate education does have significant influence on practice interests and self-identification with social work, particularly among beginning…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Shelley-Sireci, Lynn M.; Leary, Tammy A. – 1996
This study examined the process of identity development and explored the relationship between identity status of college students and their expectations of faculty. The Ego Identity Process Questionnaire (EIPQ) which yields exploration and commitment scores and a questionnaire about the role faculty should play in identity development was…
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, College Students, Graduate Students
Smith, Robert William – 1994
An elective graduate course on multicultural education in a teacher education program had two main goals: (1) to develop student awareness of the ways in which race, class, and gender affect educational achievement; and (2) to encourage students to challenge social inequality and promote an acceptance of cultural diversity. A social…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Content, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences