Critical Whiteness Education and Cognitive Frame of Reference Elaboration: An In-Depth Descriptive Case of Transformation

Autor/inn/en	Grayman-Simpson, Nyasha; Doucet, Fabienne; Burgos-López, Luz
Titel	Critical Whiteness Education and Cognitive Frame of Reference Elaboration: An In-Depth Descriptive Case of Transformation
Quelle	In: Journal of Transformative Education, 17 (2019) 3, S.269-286 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1541-3446
DOI	10.1177/1541344618821053
Schlagwörter	Whites; Critical Theory; Transformative Learning; Advantaged; Attitude Change; Learning Theories; World Views; Psychology; Small Colleges; Liberal Arts; Seminars; Critical Thinking; Reflection; Peer Evaluation; Essays; Student Leadership; Cues; Social Justice; College Seniors; Emotional Response; Empathy; Race; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? White; Weißer; Kritische Theorie; Pädagogische Transformation; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; World view; Weltanschauung; Psychologie; College; Colleges; Oberschule; Seminar; Kritisches Denken; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Studentenwerk; Stichwort; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Emotionales Verhalten; Empathie; Rasse; Abstammung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Critical race courses challenge today's college students to cognitively grapple with issues of justice and the good society. In some instances, these challenges lead to positive, relational growth-fostering attitudes and behaviors. Transformative learning educator Jack Mezirow's approach to facilitating cognitive shifts appears especially promising in its ability to promote such outcomes. In our own work, we apply this frame to guide our teaching, with an aim toward fostering and studying racially privileged (i.e., White) students' cognitive shifts around the meaning of whiteness. The present case study is an in-depth description of one student's whiteness frame of reference elaboration. Several tentative contributions to Mezirow's theory emerge as a result. Namely, whiteness frame of reference elaboration may include (1) periods of cognitive homeostasis in addition to disruption, (2) positive affective experiencing in addition to negative affect, and (3) shifts in cognition that are subjectively encoded within the context of affective experiencing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01