Theses and Dissertations
Date of Award
5-2025
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
Curriculum & Instruction
First Advisor
Laura M. Jewett
Second Advisor
Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran
Third Advisor
Pauli Badenhorst
Abstract
This dissertation critically examines the concept of multiple otherness in online learning environments in Hispanic Serving Institutions. Hispanic Serving Institutions may unintentionally perpetuate practices and curricula that exclude and decenter the needs of older, disabled, or geographically diverse black women who may not identify within the university’s focus. Despite their missions to servingness of a stated population, Hispanic serving institutions must examine existing curricula that primarily cater to the dominant minority group they have tasked themselves to serve. By investigating existing curricular practices, this research seeks to maintain the integrity of minority-serving institutions while encouraging inclusivity for all students. By extending the analysis of an intersectionality framework to an intertwining of black feminist thought, decolonization, identity fluidity, and liminality, this research interrogates the complexity of belonging as an underrepresented student in a minority-serving institution. To create genuine belongingness and not just inclusion, these institutions need to investigate lingering Eurocentric bias in curriculum. One approach to accomplish this is to encourage the sharing of lived experiences through storytelling and other narratives and first-person accounts to create bidirectional knowledge production and acquisition.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, C. (2025). Other Others at the Border: An Autoethnographic Inquiry [Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley]. ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/etd/1731
Comments
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