Creating a Community of Belonging in Educational Psychology Doctoral Education: A Collective Self-Study (Poster 41)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 9:35 am
  In Poster Session: Teaching of Educational Psychology Poster Session

Abstract

This collective self-study explores what it looks like to foster a sense of belonging and co-construct knowledge within a graduate-level educational psychology course and program (13 students, one professor). Within our course, we asked tough questions about marginalization, lack of student voice, and how we could collaborate with and support one another. Four themes emerged from our analysis of course materials and dialogue: 1) Co-constructing knowledge, 2) Supports for diverse students, 3) Critical Mentorship, and 4) Naturalistic Ways of Knowing. Our study demonstrates its value in making public our classroom experiences and the studying of that experience; openly, implicitly, and collaboratively so others who work and learn in educational psychology might benefit from the lessons we learned along the way.

Authors

• Taylor Cummings, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Nicole J. Thomas, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Lisa D. Bendixen, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Jordan Hankins, Southern Nevada Black Educators Initiative

• Sasha Ball, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Tammy Szafranski, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Mayra Marquez-Mendez, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Hank Boone, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Anna Dreibelbis, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Bridget K. Daleiden, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Brian Jones, University of Nevada - Las Vegas