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dc.contributor.advisorAgbo, Seth
dc.contributor.authorPearson, Krista Leanne
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-05T13:10:13Z
dc.date.available2015-08-05T13:10:13Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2015-08-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/654
dc.description.abstractThis study explored senior administrators‘ perspectives on Whiteness and racism in postsecondary education. The study focused on Canadian senior administrators at postsecondary institutions located in 2 provinces and in 2 communities with populations of less than 100,000. Using critical ethnography and narrative inquiry methodologies, this study‘s participants acknowledged that Whiteness and racism exist in postsecondary institutions. It found that senior administrators are in a position to influence the postsecondary institutional climate, and that they perceive their role as being accountable to the organization including responses to Whiteness and racism. This study asserts that as a well-educated and predominantly White culture-sharing group, the senior administrators‘ conscientiousness of White privilege is required to address racism. Most of this study‘s senior administrator participants acknowledge having been exposed to specific acts of racism in higher education. The findings suggest specific actions to challenge racism within postsecondary institutions, such as senior administrators‘ role-modeling actions against racism; adopting a critical pedagogical approach toward institutional antiracist education; the enforcement of institutional antidiscrimination and harassment policies; and hiring procedures informed by nondominant perspectives to promote employee diversity. This research also revealed prejudices disproportionately focused on Aboriginal students and communities, which implies a role for further research and government response.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectRacismen_US
dc.subjectWhitenessen_US
dc.subjectSocial justiceen_US
dc.subjectEquityen_US
dc.subjectHigher educationen_US
dc.subjectPostsecondary administrationen_US
dc.subjectLeadershipen_US
dc.subjectAntiracismen_US
dc.subjectCritical race theoryen_US
dc.subjectAntiracist educationen_US
dc.subjectCritical pedagogyen_US
dc.titleSocial justice and equity : exploring the perspectives of senior administrators on whiteness and racism in postsecondary educationen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US
etd.degree.namePh.D.en_US
etd.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
etd.degree.disciplineEducationen_US
etd.degree.grantorLakehead Universityen_US


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