Academic Expectations Conceptualized Within a Complex Systems Framework (Poster 34)

• In Event: Thursday Poster Session 2:30 pm
  In Poster Session: Complexity Theories in Education SIG Poster Session

Abstract

The proposed paper examines traditional approaches to teacher expectation research and argues for a revised conceptualization of the central construct: academic expectations. It argues that academic expectations constitute emergent, co-constructed phenomena that are shaped in part by sociocultural and sociohistorical context. It applies a complex systems approach to understand the consequential compounding of expectation effects for historically marginalized populations in some settings. This theoretical paper reviews selected literature to understand and explain the academic expectation research trajectory to date, and offers a revised understanding based on a methodological critique.

Author

• Jessica Hadid, Temple University