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Publication Date: 2021
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Traveling in Circles: Gatekeeping in Honors
White, Leah
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, v22 n1 p27-30 Spr 2021
This essay challenges boundaries in honors that are both intentional and unavoidable. Reflecting on what appears to be an overemphasis on boundaries and gatekeeping within honors, the author urges practitioners to consider its exclusionary culture and the extent to which it circles around its stated goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The current preoccupation of honors with reaching beyond its boundaries to embrace the goals of social justice movements, for example, reveals the extent of its entrenchment with concerns of Whiteness. This essay suggests that until honors practitioners are willing to do the difficult reflective work of understanding why boundaries in honors seem important, little can be achieved to move beyond them.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Inclusion, Diversity, Equal Education, Social Justice, Whites, Social Bias
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Language: English
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