Consequential Research: Opening to Relational Dialogue in Pursuit of What Is Just and Therefore True

Session Type: Virtual Symposium

Abstract

This symposium introduces the notion of “excessive teacher/faculty entitlement”—a new
theme in teacher education (Author & Craig, 2021). While much research focuses on the
‘me centred’ entitlement mentality of students, it fails to examine how excessive teacher
entitlement influences student entitlement. When teachers feel excessively entitled, their
actions can be counterproductive to the goal of promoting equity in education.
The session brings together researchers from diverse geographical contexts to present their
narratives of experience with “excessive entitlement attitude” by going inward to unearth
its tacit dimensions triggered by giving a name to the phenomenon—how it gets constructed
within the situated dynamics of their institutional milieu and inhibits the realization of their
professional responsibility to serve all students.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chair

• Magdalena Kohout-Diaz, University of Bordeaux

Papers

• When Not Getting Your Due Is Your Due: Excessive Entitlement in Action - Cheryl J. Craig, Texas A&M University

• Unearthing the Roots of "Excessive Teacher Entitled Behavior" for Fostering Change - Tara Ratnam, Independent Researcher

• A Feel for the Game: Confronting Power Asymmetries in Research Supervision - Marie-Christine Deyrich, University of Bordeaux

• Generating Living-Educational-Theories With Love in Transforming Excessive Teacher Entitlement - Jack Whitehead, University of Cumbria

• In the Shadow of Traditional Education: A Currere of School Forces That Hinder or Facilitate Multiple Epistemologies and Dialogues - Richard D. Sawyer, Washington State University - Vancouver

• The Treatment of Teachers as Nonpersons as an Expression of Society's Excessively Entitled Attitude - Eliza A. Pinnegar, Independant Researcher; Stefinee E. Pinnegar, Brigham Young University

Discussant

• Hafdis Gudjonsdottir, University of Iceland