As they see it: Black Women’s conceptualizations of professional socialization in education graduate programs

Alexander, Edwin

doi:10.1080/13613324.2022.2106880

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“…The bricolage method is multidisciplinary and meant to help capture complexities of phenomena and environments in which they occur (Kincheloe et al, 2011). This bricolage borrowed from constructivist case study (Merriam;1998;Stake, 1995Stake, , 2000, grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1990/1998, and narrative inquiry (Kim, 2016;alexander, 2022). The study's frameworks supported analysis, as presented in the Findings section.…”

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“…For data collection, I asked participants to discuss locations -in the College, at Midwest, and beyond Midwest -that supported their professionalization. I carried out the study as a bricolage, "a pieced-together set of representations that are fitted to the specifics of a complex situation" (Denzin & Lincoln, 2018, p. 11;alexander, 2022). The bricolage method is multidisciplinary and meant to help capture complexities of phenomena and environments in which they occur (Kincheloe et al, 2011).…”

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“…BlackCrit (Dumas & ross, 2016) borrows from postcolonialism to explore structural, cultural, and psychological forms of anti-Blackness in society. In doing so, the framework asserts that epistemic rules used to define humanness associate normalcy and social acceptability with whiteness, and undesirability and incorrectness with Blackness in need of western intervention to "correct" it (i.e., Dumas, 2015;alexander, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…I collected data via Zoom summer 2020 -through which I also audio-recorded and transcribed discussions. I facilitated focus groups as sister circles, through which participants co-constructed ideas about professional socialization by providing insights about each other's experiences (alexander, 2022;Bosco & Herman, 2018;Butler-Kisber, 2008;Watt, 2003;Wilson & Flicker, 2014). The first group explored BGW's locations of professionalization in general terms while talking through five prepared questions; the second explored locations in the College and at Midwest while talking through 10 prepared questions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…My analysis process included: 1) open and axial coding (Strauss & Corbin, 1990, 1998 transcript data after cleaning them; 2) re-reading and re-coding each transcript twice with the new coding frames; 3) identifying major areas of findings in the study; 4) creating composite narratives for each area of findings (Labov, as quoted by Mishler, 1995); and 5) conducting analytical processes of broadening, burrowing, and restorying (alexander, 2022). Broadening is looking for wider contexts for stories than the stories themselves; burrowing is looking into specific details of narrative data; restorying is recreating a story from data within the contexts of findings, after broadening and burrowing (alexander, 2022;Connelly & Clandinin, 1990;Kim, 2016). I broadened and restoried data through the paper's frameworks.…”

Section: Data Collection and Analysis And Participant Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

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Locating Themselves: Black Womxn’s Geographies of Professional Socialization

Alexander

2022

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This paper presents findings from a larger study that explored the relationship among Black graduate womxn’s (BGW) geospatial and social locations in their academic organizations, their professional socialization processes, and their abilities to access their desired career pipelines upon program completion. More specifically, it is concerned with manners in which Black womxn (co-)construct geographies for their professional growth that (a) retain Black womxnhood at their centers – and in doing so, (b) challenge academia’s dominant discourses about students’ socialization processes and outcomes. The study took place in a highly ranked college of education (“the College”), at a highly regarded predominately-white public research institution in the American Midwest (“Midwest”). I conducted the study using a bricolage approach. Black Critical Race Theory, postcolonialism, and ideas about everyday resistance informed the paper’s methodology. The findings illustrate a theorizing of Black womxn’s created geographies as sites of resistance, and their liberatory imaginations, against anti-Black and colonial violence in the education academy. They also offer implications for how academia must evolve its understandings, structures, locations, and practices of graduate studies to be more responsive to the evolving needs of a diversifying population of learners and professionals.

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Locating Themselves: Black Womxn’s Geographies of Professional Socialization

Alexander

2022

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Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics

Xie

2023

East Asia

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As part of a larger study, this paper presents findings from my exploration of discourses about China-US geopolitics through popular discussions on Chinese international students (CIS) who are attending American universities during the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. The study seeks to advance scholarship for international students attending American colleges, with particular implications for Chinese students, as agents of geopolitical relations. In doing so, it investigates (a) how these students are represented in American media and (b) the criticality of international geopolitics in the mobility of international students. The findings reveal that American popular media sources assume a tone when writing about CIS that may stem from a deeper anti-Chinese sentiment that exists in the US. They also suggest that American institutions of higher education, and American companies that employ CIS after graduation, treat these students as imported subjects/objects that support America’s intellectual and economic advancement. In doing so, the media perpetuates narratives of geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, while representing CIS as unwitting agents of those tensions. The study seeks to advance scholarship on international students attending US colleges, particularly those from China, during an era of rising populism and right-wing movements in the US coupled with rapidly deteriorating US-China relations. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12140-023-09409-5.

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Conceptualizing Professionalization for Black Social Work Students

alexander

2024

Studies in Clinical Social Work

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As they see it: Black Women’s conceptualizations of professional socialization in education graduate programs

Cited by 4 publications

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Locating Themselves: Black Womxn’s Geographies of Professional Socialization

Locating Themselves: Black Womxn’s Geographies of Professional Socialization

Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics

Conceptualizing Professionalization for Black Social Work Students

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