Exploring Issues of Culture and Gender Through Socialization and Dominant Discourse in Graduate Education

• In Event: 65.067 - Intersectionality and Women in Higher Education: Exploring Issues of Gender, Culture, and Socialization

Abstract

This qualitative study examines the role of dominant discourse and socialization in the experiences of female graduate students and faculty in educational leadership doctoral programs. It specifically examines the intersection of age and gender--and in some instances age, gender and race--in equity rhetoric in the field of leadership. The study was informed and grounded under a critical feminist framework that aims to transform assumed realities shaped by societal policy and gender factors

Authors

• Danna M. Beaty, Tarleton State University

• Whitney Sherman Newcomb, Virginia Commonwealth University