Uprooting Excessive Entitlement: A New Direction in Understanding and Dismantling Racial Injustice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium provides a new direction in addressing racial injustice using the notion of “excessive entitlement” (Author & Craig, 2021). Using narratives of experience, it examines the sociohistorical and cultural dynamics that mediate the tacit workings of racism in educational institutions activating excessive entitled attitudes and behaviors. Going beyond the limiting view of racism as an offshoot of individual bias, this approach helps us gain a more sophisticated understanding of it as a set of ideas and practices embedded in the structure of our cultural world. This understanding shifts our focus from changing the individual in isolation to addressing the deeply ingrained racial prejudices perpetuated in the institutional context in educational efforts geared to promote socially just practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chair

• Tara Ratnam, Independent Researcher

Papers

• Change a Story: Change a Life - Cheryl J. Craig, Texas A&M University

• Addressing Manifestations of Segregative Injustice in the Doctoral process: The Case of International Students - Magdalena Kohout-Diaz, University of Bordeaux; Marie-Christine Deyrich, University of Bordeaux

• Addressing Excessive Teacher Entitlement by Regaining Spaces for Play - Tara Ratnam, Independent Researcher

• Public Entitlement, Deficit Orientation, and Teacher Attrition - Eliza A. Pinnegar, Anchorage School District; Celina Marie Lay, Brigham Young University; Stefinee E. Pinnegar, Brigham Young University

Discussant

• Hafdis Gudjonsdottir, University of Iceland