Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education
Understanding and Combating Covert Violence in Universities
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Book Description
This book recognizes microaggression as a pervasive issue in colleges and universities around the world and offers critical analyses of the local and institutional contexts in which such incidences of violence and discrimination occur.
Authors from Egypt, Barbados, South Africa, Canada, and the United States explore the origins and forms of microaggression which impact students, faculty, and staff in higher education and address issues including xenophobia, sexual violence, linguistic discrimination, and racial prejudice. Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and utilizing empirical, qualitative, and ethnographic methods to consider microaggressions perpetrated by both students and staff, each chapter proposes practical ways to prevent violence through education, student agency, policy, and leadership.
This book offers a contemporary global dialogue with educators and is vital reading for educators and administrators in higher education.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Christine L. Cho and Julie K. Corkett
Section 1: Microaggressions Impacting Students and Professors
2. Brave Spaces, Brave Facilitators, Brave Conversations: Microaggressions in the Online Environment
Christine L. Cho and Julie K. Corkett
3. Linguistic Racism, Deficit Constructions, and the Othering of International Students
Christina Page
4. Crazy Rich Asian International Students: The Model Minority Myth and Microaggressions between Asian International and Asian American Students in Higher Education
Talitha Angelica (Angel) Acaylar Trazo and Woohee Kim
5. Portraits of Preservice Candidate Microaggressive Complaint Patterns
Miriam Hirsch
6. Incivility in Science Teacher Education: What Are We Actually Teaching and Learning?
Wafaa Mohammed Moawad Abd-El-Aal and Astrid Steele
Section 2: Understanding Wider Societal Causes of Microaggression in Higher Education Contexts
7. The Intersection of Social Inequities and Marginalization in Education: Towards a Praxis
Munacinga Simatele
8. Ableist Microaggressions in the Academy: An Examination of "Blind Review"
Danielle E. Lorenz
9. Students’ RateMyProfessors.com Evaluations as Antecedents of Faculty-to-Faculty Incivility: A Theoretical Examination
Mercy C. Oyet and Theresa A. Chika-James
10. Did I Offend You? I Did Not Mean To! Dismantling Microaggressions towards Historically Marginalised Groups in Education
Jason Marshall, Darcia Roache, and Stanley Bruce Thomson
Section 3: Looking Forward: Resistance within Higher Education Environments
11. Confronting Microaggressions within and beyond the Academy: Narratives of an Anti-Racism Network
Kamal Arora, Adrienne Chan, and Awneet Sivia
12. Understanding Gendered Microaggressions as Part of Systems of Oppression in Academic STEM Workplaces
Rebecca L. Warner, Kali Furman, Michelle K. Bothwell, Dwaine Plaza, and Bonnie Ruder
13. The Use of the Reflective Personal Narrative to Mend Microaggressions and Microinsults of the Preservice Teacher
Melina Alexander and Stephanie Speicher
14. Conclusion
Christine L. Cho and Julie K. Corkett
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Biography
Christine L. Cho is an Associate Professor at Nipissing University’s Schulich School of Education, Canada.
Julie K. Corkett is an Associate Professor at Nipissing University’s Schulich School of Education, Canada.