Browsing by Subject "socialization"

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    Effects of Racial and Ethnic Socialization on Parent-Child Relationships in Biracial Households
    (2019-04) Doto, Zoey, J; Syed, Moin Ph. D.
    Identity development is heavily impacted by the provision of racial and/or ethnic socialization from one’s parents. For biracial individuals, it is possible to be exposed to multiple types of racial and/or ethnic socialization and learning how to balance these different identities can be challenging. Using the emergent design of grounded theory with race/ethnicity being a primary level of importance, the current study seeks to understand reasons for parents choosing to expose their child to different types of racial and/or ethnic socialization and how this impacts their relationship with the child. Interviews with ten self-identifying biracial young adults were conducted and responses were analyzed, revealing that reasons for provision of socializations were impacted by historical events, parental lived experiences, and phenotypic presentation of the child. Quotes are based on personal experiences of participants and do not speak for general populations. Study limitations are noted and suggestions for future research are listed.
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    Letting the Future In: Faculty Advising as an Institutional Strategy
    (2022-09) Herrmann, Jennifer
    This study examines the advising relationship of faculty advisors and student advisees at a public liberal arts college that is part of a multi-campus university system. The study was designed to capture and compare the perceptions that faculty and students had of their experience working together in an advising relationship. Data was derived from interview responses of students from a pre-identified second year cohort, and the corresponding interviews of the faculty advisors of the participating students. The interview responses were analyzed using an interpretive phenomenological approach, looking for emergent themes as well as shared and contrasting viewpoints. Elements such as trust, personalization, care, validation, socialization, value, and expertise were explored from both the student and advisor perspective. With both expected and unexpected findings, suggestions for future institutional practice and implications for policy and future research are offered to higher education practitioners and administrators.
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    Sorting In Sports and Schools: How Early Childhood Teachers and Coaches Categorize Children
    (2020-06) August, Amy
    Do sports privilege children with different initial strengths and skills than schools do? To find out, I conduct a comparative, qualitative case study of two institutions of early learning—a preschool and a gymnastics class—using ethnography and in-depth interviews to determine how instructors categorize children, how they tailor instruction to meet students’ perceived needs, and how this differentiated instruction affects student learning and development. My fieldwork shows that a general process unfolds similarly in both sites. As soon as kids begin preschool classes in both sports and schools, their instructors begin to categorize them into groups based on their proximity to “kindergarten readiness.” When kids first enter institutionalized learning environments, like preschool or a structured gymnastics class, instructors assess them. On the basis of these assessments, instructors categorize the children and differentiate their instruction accordingly – they provide extra help to those whom they perceive as struggling and extra challenges to those whom they perceive as “advanced.” By the end of the term, these experiences inform their decisions about who is ready for kindergarten, who needs another year or session of preschool, or who should be tested for special needs. As a result of these instructor recommendations, the children are regrouped the following year. These new groups are separated by social boundaries, as resources are meted out differently to preschool and kindergarten classes as well as to students who are identified as needing special education services. As children continue to be sorted within the system into groups identified as “gifted” and as “mainstream,” symbolic boundaries form that further distinguish the groups. Thus, the creation of social and symbolic boundaries among groups of children begins from the moment they first enter institutionalized learning environments, as teachers and coaches categorize, instruct, and sort them. At the preschool level, unlike in later grades, the behaviors both teachers and coaches weigh the most heavily in categorizing and sorting students are social skills. This means that the children to whom the structured environments of preschool and preschool sports classes seem most familiar—those whose homes are culturally similar—likely have an early advantage over peers from homes that are less well “matched.”