Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Natural Sciences
First Advisor
Shipman, Steven
Area of Concentration
Natural Sciences
Abstract
This thesis is an exploration that moves past simply ushering diverse persons into the academy. What happens once entry occurs? The thesis offers revisions to pedagogies and highlights context and difference as key areas that current best practices and calls for innovative education overlook. The work is based in a learner-centered approach and from a student-centered perspective, a perspective novel in the field. Reading the world and Intersectionality are core theoretical frameworks which guided the exploration. This exploration focused on learner centered assessment, the acknowledgment of difference through access to knowledge, survivalist tactics and their metaphysical underpinnings as means of incorporating reading the world and intersectionality into the classroom, allowing the classroom to become a transformative, liberatory and non-alienating space.
Recommended Citation
Mergilles, Yvenord, "Something to Believe In: a multidimensional approach to education encompassing: radical pedagogies, reading the world and the metaphysics of racial, gendered and societal barriers in education." (2019). Theses & ETDs. 5685.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5685