Date of Degree
2024
Degree Name
Ed.D. (Doctor of Education)
Department
Department of Counseling and Higher Education (CAHE)
Director
Dr. Hutchings, Quortne
Committee Members
Dr. Hu, Xiaodan; Dr. Mac, Jacqueline
Keywords
Critical Counter-Narratives; Community Cultural Wealth; Community College; Latian Faculty; Challenging Status-Quo; Whiteness in Academia; Transformation
Abstract
This qualitative study embedded the Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) framework within the critical counter-narrative methodology to examine the lived experiences of 11 Latina faculty from CA community colleges as they navigated their campuses in the quest to transform their institutions. Drawing from their cultural capital and the methodological approach, four distinct themes emerged from their counter-narratives: (1) through critical reflection, their awakening to the oppressive educational system that marginalizes communities of color afforded them the opportunity to use their transformative resistant capital and aspirational capital as the driver for transformative change; (2) in challenging the status-quo, they encountered barriers centered in whiteness as the norm and sexism; (3) they countered these oppressive norms with microaffirmations which were viewed through their familial and linguistic capitals; (4) their generativity appeared when they leveraged their navigational and social capitals to transform their institutions by changing policies, creating an affinity group through union support, and the addition of an academic policy which supported degree completion. This study adds to the dearth body of research that elevates the Latina faculty experience at CA community colleges. Future research should incorporate the CCW framework and critical counter-narrative methodology to further explore the impact critical reflection and generativity have on transformational outcomes driven by Latina community college faculty in higher education.
Publisher
Northern Illinois University
Rights Statement
In Copyright
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Recommended Citation
Escobar, Dora E., "GUERRERAS (WOMEN WARRIORS): LATINA FACULTY UTILIZING THEIR CULTURAL CAPITAL TO ADVANCE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE" (2024). Dissertations of Practice. 39.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-disspractice/39
