Excessive Entitlement: A Fresh Perspective in Research Toward Just Educational Renewal

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium informs the efforts to redress the injustice of historically developing educational exclusion and oppression by providing a fresh research perspective using the notion of excessive teacher/faculty entitlement (Author, 2021). The notion of excessive entitlement speaks to the human inconsistency between what one sees as good for oneself and others. It provides a language to bring to consciousness through narratives of researchers’ diverse experiences the injustices perpetuated through the social processes in the institutional context of their practice and its negative consequence on the values of justice and collective wellbeing they hold. This awareness, in turn, becomes the motive to re-examine existing knowledge and adapt it to our current context by generating practices that support equitable opportunities for all.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chair

• Jacqueline D. Delong, International Mentor

Papers

• Understanding the Pervasive Phenomenon of Excessive Teacher Entitlement for Just Educational Renewal - Tara Ratnam, Independent Researcher

• Turning Excessive Entitlement on its Head: Beginning with Self - Cheryl J. Craig, Texas A&M University

• Excessive Entitlement as an Embodied Experience: A Teacher’s Reflective Journey - Jacqueline Marie Ellett, Piedmont University

• Excessive Entitlement in the Media Positioning of Teachers. - Celina Marie Lay, Brigham Young University; Stefinee E. Pinnegar, Brigham Young University

• Interplay Between Entitlement and Resiliency: Voices of Academic Leadership - Ozge Hacifazlioglu, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Lily Orland-Barak, University of Haifa