“…Employing critical theory therefore requires the researcher to use her or his scholarship to dismantle the constructors' hegemonic power and the reproduction and execution of that power through institutions such as media and schools (Slott, 2002). The critical theorist questions the production, validation, dissemination, and reproduction of knowledge through these institutions; there is no innocence in even those efforts to include those who have hitherto been alienated (Marx & Engels, 1848/1978 in the conversations, as that which appears to be neutral is too often rife with hegemonic power.…”