Adeline Borti
Biographic Data
| ID | 213752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adeline Borti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adeline |
| FAMILY NAME | Borti |
| SIGNATURE | BORTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8587-7562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A trioethnography of using grounded theory to decolonize research in psychology and education
Using Ubuntu as a Research Paradigm to Unpack How Ghanaian Novice Teachers and Their Collaborators Engaged Virtually in Collaborative International Qualitative Research
The article details how Ubuntu was incorporated into each step of the research project, shares the authors' experiences and key learnings, and provides recommendations for researchers utilizing Ubuntu as a research paradigm. Ubuntu is an ancient African philosophy emphasizing a way of life grounded in interdependence, collaboration, harmony, and community. In recent years, researchers have incorporated Ubuntu as a research paradigm to decolonize …
Exploring a preservice teacher’s literacy knowledge and positioning
Existing literature shows the importance of teachers’ knowledge about literacy and its influence on teachers’ beliefs, pedagogy and students’ literacy development, and students’ general academic achievement. Despite the importance of teacher knowledge about literacy, research still shows varied and limited knowledge of teachers about literacy. Further, qualitative research in preservice teacher knowledge using positioning theory is limited. In th…
Language Needs of Francophone Students in an English as a Second Language Context
In this study, I examined the English language needs of 73 Francophone students who enrolled to pursue their undergraduate degree in an English as a Second Language context. The setting for this case study was a private university in Ghana. The focus of this study addresses an important gap in the literature on meeting the needs of francophone undergraduate students. The participants in this study were French-speaking students who mostly lived an…
A Life in Two Worlds
This autoethnographic poetic inquiry presents childhood and adulthood experiences of a silenced life that navigated the journey through silence into the world of speech. Using poetry to retell and relive these experiences creates the metaphor and the imagery into my world, thereby offering reflexivity, aestheticism, meaning, and hope. The two poems represent the stages of my life while I carry the reader along my passing years in a chronological …
Employing Autoethnography to Examine Our Diverse Identities
This paper brings together the storied experiences of a group of diverse scholars from Ghana, Uzbekistan, and the United States who use a collaborative autoethnographic lens to engage in the process of self-reflection/self-critique with respect to salient aspects of their identities (e.g., race, language, gender, socioeconomic status, and so forth). Each scholar also explores how her identity informs and influences her attitudes, behaviors, belie…
Using Ubuntu as a Research Paradigm to Unpack How Ghanaian Novice Teachers and Their Collaborators Engaged Virtually in Collaborative International Qualitative Research
The article details how Ubuntu was incorporated into each step of the research project, shares the authors' experiences and key learnings, and provides recommendations for researchers utilizing Ubuntu as a research paradigm. Ubuntu is an ancient African philosophy emphasizing a way of life grounded in interdependence, collaboration, harmony, and community. In recent years, researchers have incorporated Ubuntu as a research paradigm to decolonize …
Employing Autoethnography to Examine Our Diverse Identities
This paper brings together the storied experiences of a group of diverse scholars from Ghana, Uzbekistan, and the United States who use a collaborative autoethnographic lens to engage in the process of self-reflection/self-critique with respect to salient aspects of their identities (e.g., race, language, gender, socioeconomic status, and so forth). Each scholar also explores how her identity informs and influences her attitudes, behaviors, belie…
A Life in Two Worlds
This autoethnographic poetic inquiry presents childhood and adulthood experiences of a silenced life that navigated the journey through silence into the world of speech. Using poetry to retell and relive these experiences creates the metaphor and the imagery into my world, thereby offering reflexivity, aestheticism, meaning, and hope. The two poems represent the stages of my life while I carry the reader along my passing years in a chronological …
Employing Autoethnography to Examine Our Diverse Identities
This paper brings together the storied experiences of a group of diverse scholars from Ghana, Uzbekistan, and the United States who use a collaborative autoethnographic lens to engage in the process of self-reflection/self-critique with respect to salient aspects of their identities (e.g., race, language, gender, socioeconomic status, and so forth). Each scholar also explores how her identity informs and influences her attitudes, behaviors, belie…
A Life in Two Worlds
This autoethnographic poetic inquiry presents childhood and adulthood experiences of a silenced life that navigated the journey through silence into the world of speech. Using poetry to retell and relive these experiences creates the metaphor and the imagery into my world, thereby offering reflexivity, aestheticism, meaning, and hope. The two poems represent the stages of my life while I carry the reader along my passing years in a chronological …
Language Needs of Francophone Students in an English as a Second Language Context
In this study, I examined the English language needs of 73 Francophone students who enrolled to pursue their undergraduate degree in an English as a Second Language context. The setting for this case study was a private university in Ghana. The focus of this study addresses an important gap in the literature on meeting the needs of francophone undergraduate students. The participants in this study were French-speaking students who mostly lived an…
Exploring a preservice teacher’s literacy knowledge and positioning
Existing literature shows the importance of teachers’ knowledge about literacy and its influence on teachers’ beliefs, pedagogy and students’ literacy development, and students’ general academic achievement. Despite the importance of teacher knowledge about literacy, research still shows varied and limited knowledge of teachers about literacy. Further, qualitative research in preservice teacher knowledge using positioning theory is limited. In th…
Using Ubuntu as a Research Paradigm to Unpack How Ghanaian Novice Teachers and Their Collaborators Engaged Virtually in Collaborative International Qualitative Research
The article details how Ubuntu was incorporated into each step of the research project, shares the authors' experiences and key learnings, and provides recommendations for researchers utilizing Ubuntu as a research paradigm. Ubuntu is an ancient African philosophy emphasizing a way of life grounded in interdependence, collaboration, harmony, and community. In recent years, researchers have incorporated Ubuntu as a research paradigm to decolonize …
A trioethnography of using grounded theory to decolonize research in psychology and education
Sociology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Autoethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literacy (2 works)