Silvia Cristina Bettez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4510464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Cristina Bettez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bettez |
| SIGNATURE | BETTEZ S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8434-0779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Persistence of and Challenges to Whiteness in Parent Engagement
Purpose: School leaders who articulate a desire to center equity in their schools often neglect to examine how racism persists in their parent and family engagement strategies. This oversight can reify structures that are oppressive and exclusionary to the marginalized families school leaders claim they want to engage. Research Methods/Approach: In this study, we use case study methods to examine the way one social justice–oriented school attempt…
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Textured Dialogues
With greater diversification of American society comes a need to forge intercultural connections that will promote and support effective education services for immigrant families. The intercultural
Flipping the Script from Talking to Teens about “Celebrating Diversity” to Promoting Equity Through Embracing Vulnerability and Enacting Courage
Diversity and inclusion are popular, yet often challenging, topics for youth in schools. A common approach to address the issues is to invite outside speakers to discuss ways to “celebrate diversity.” After being invited to give such a talk, I created and enacted a presentation at an affluent high school on this topic that is grounded in social justice education. The presentation flips the script from celebrating diversity to promoting equity by …
Imagined Community of Education
To challenge deficit thinking concerning immigrants and refugees in urban schools, we engaged members of local immigrant and refugee communities from China, Mexico, Liberia, and Sudan in focus group discussions about their prior educational experiences, their hopes and aspirations for education, and the supports and challenges they encountered in their perceived reality of PK-12 education in the United States. In an effort to promote asset-based …
Multiracial Feminism
Women of color have always actively participated in women's issues. However, their experience with feminist work has often been overlooked and largely undocumented. Multiracial feminism refers to the activist and scholarly work conducted by women of color and antiracist white allies to promote race, class, and gender equality. In comparison to the highly documented second wave white, middle‐class feminism, which centered on abolishing patriarchy …
Feminism, Multiracial
Women of color have, for decades, challenged theories that separated discussions of race and gender and actively confronted mainstream (white, middle‐class) feminists' discomfort with discussions of racial power differences. Although women of color were engaged in activism during the first, second, and third “waves” of feminism, much of their scholarly work was dismissed or overlooked by mainstream feminists. Multiracial feminism foregrounds disc…
Navigating the complexity of qualitative research in postmodern contexts
For graduate students and other emerging qualitative researchers, the ever-evolving and sometimes conflicting perspectives, methodologies, and practices within various post-positivist frameworks (e.g. feminist, critical, Indigenous, participatory) can be overwhelming. Qualitative researchers working within postmodern contexts of multiplicity and ambiguity are tasked with working through challenges – related to methods, interpretation, and represe…
Community Building in Social Justice Work
In this article we argue for the importance of building critical communities as an integral, yet neglected, aspect of education for social justice. We begin by defining critical communities and by describing goals and vision for social justice education. We then explore how community is discussed in the education literature, limitations and challenges of calling for community, and images of critical communities in social justice work. We end by e…
Centering the Educational and Social Significance of HBCUs
But Don’t Call Me White
In this series, we are establishing a new tradition in the sociology of education.Like many fields, the sociology of education has largely assumed that the field develops through the steady accumulation of studies.Thomas Kuhn referred to this as 'normal science.'Yet normal science builds on a paradigm shift, elaborating and expanding the paradigm.What has received less attention are the works that contribute to paradigm shifts themselves.To remed…
Building Critical Communities Amid the Uncertainty of Social Justice Pedagogy in the Graduate Classroom
Fostering Community Life and Human Civility in Academic Departments Through Covenant Practice
Creating desirable academic departments for individuals’ well-being and quality scholarship is an important effort as well as a novel idea. The focus of this reflective article is twofold: (a) We present a social capital theory of social justice covenants as a product and process of community building, and (b) we share the multiple lived experiences of three scholars within the context of our department's covenant ideology and practice. We explor…
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging Silvia Cristina Bettez (bio) How is it that people know when they belong and to what they belong? This question, about the epistemology of belonging, carries a particular complexity for mixed-race women. How is it that mixed-race women create a sense of identification with others? What are the unities and disjunctures? What can we understand about epistemologies of belonging through examining how m…
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging
Navigating the complexity of qualitative research in postmodern contexts
For graduate students and other emerging qualitative researchers, the ever-evolving and sometimes conflicting perspectives, methodologies, and practices within various post-positivist frameworks (e.g. feminist, critical, Indigenous, participatory) can be overwhelming. Qualitative researchers working within postmodern contexts of multiplicity and ambiguity are tasked with working through challenges – related to methods, interpretation, and represe…
Imagined Community of Education
To challenge deficit thinking concerning immigrants and refugees in urban schools, we engaged members of local immigrant and refugee communities from China, Mexico, Liberia, and Sudan in focus group discussions about their prior educational experiences, their hopes and aspirations for education, and the supports and challenges they encountered in their perceived reality of PK-12 education in the United States. In an effort to promote asset-based …
Community Building in Social Justice Work
In this article we argue for the importance of building critical communities as an integral, yet neglected, aspect of education for social justice. We begin by defining critical communities and by describing goals and vision for social justice education. We then explore how community is discussed in the education literature, limitations and challenges of calling for community, and images of critical communities in social justice work. We end by e…
Fostering Community Life and Human Civility in Academic Departments Through Covenant Practice
Creating desirable academic departments for individuals’ well-being and quality scholarship is an important effort as well as a novel idea. The focus of this reflective article is twofold: (a) We present a social capital theory of social justice covenants as a product and process of community building, and (b) we share the multiple lived experiences of three scholars within the context of our department's covenant ideology and practice. We explor…
Centering the Educational and Social Significance of HBCUs
Building Critical Communities Amid the Uncertainty of Social Justice Pedagogy in the Graduate Classroom
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging
The Persistence of and Challenges to Whiteness in Parent Engagement
Purpose: School leaders who articulate a desire to center equity in their schools often neglect to examine how racism persists in their parent and family engagement strategies. This oversight can reify structures that are oppressive and exclusionary to the marginalized families school leaders claim they want to engage. Research Methods/Approach: In this study, we use case study methods to examine the way one social justice–oriented school attempt…
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Textured Dialogues
With greater diversification of American society comes a need to forge intercultural connections that will promote and support effective education services for immigrant families. The intercultural
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging Silvia Cristina Bettez (bio) How is it that people know when they belong and to what they belong? This question, about the epistemology of belonging, carries a particular complexity for mixed-race women. How is it that mixed-race women create a sense of identification with others? What are the unities and disjunctures? What can we understand about epistemologies of belonging through examining how m…
Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging
But Don’t Call Me White
In this series, we are establishing a new tradition in the sociology of education.Like many fields, the sociology of education has largely assumed that the field develops through the steady accumulation of studies.Thomas Kuhn referred to this as 'normal science.'Yet normal science builds on a paradigm shift, elaborating and expanding the paradigm.What has received less attention are the works that contribute to paradigm shifts themselves.To remed…
Building Critical Communities Amid the Uncertainty of Social Justice Pedagogy in the Graduate Classroom
Fostering Community Life and Human Civility in Academic Departments Through Covenant Practice
Creating desirable academic departments for individuals’ well-being and quality scholarship is an important effort as well as a novel idea. The focus of this reflective article is twofold: (a) We present a social capital theory of social justice covenants as a product and process of community building, and (b) we share the multiple lived experiences of three scholars within the context of our department's covenant ideology and practice. We explor…
Centering the Educational and Social Significance of HBCUs
Community Building in Social Justice Work
In this article we argue for the importance of building critical communities as an integral, yet neglected, aspect of education for social justice. We begin by defining critical communities and by describing goals and vision for social justice education. We then explore how community is discussed in the education literature, limitations and challenges of calling for community, and images of critical communities in social justice work. We end by e…
Navigating the complexity of qualitative research in postmodern contexts
For graduate students and other emerging qualitative researchers, the ever-evolving and sometimes conflicting perspectives, methodologies, and practices within various post-positivist frameworks (e.g. feminist, critical, Indigenous, participatory) can be overwhelming. Qualitative researchers working within postmodern contexts of multiplicity and ambiguity are tasked with working through challenges – related to methods, interpretation, and represe…
Feminism, Multiracial
Women of color have, for decades, challenged theories that separated discussions of race and gender and actively confronted mainstream (white, middle‐class) feminists' discomfort with discussions of racial power differences. Although women of color were engaged in activism during the first, second, and third “waves” of feminism, much of their scholarly work was dismissed or overlooked by mainstream feminists. Multiracial feminism foregrounds disc…
Flipping the Script from Talking to Teens about “Celebrating Diversity” to Promoting Equity Through Embracing Vulnerability and Enacting Courage
Diversity and inclusion are popular, yet often challenging, topics for youth in schools. A common approach to address the issues is to invite outside speakers to discuss ways to “celebrate diversity.” After being invited to give such a talk, I created and enacted a presentation at an affluent high school on this topic that is grounded in social justice education. The presentation flips the script from celebrating diversity to promoting equity by …
Imagined Community of Education
To challenge deficit thinking concerning immigrants and refugees in urban schools, we engaged members of local immigrant and refugee communities from China, Mexico, Liberia, and Sudan in focus group discussions about their prior educational experiences, their hopes and aspirations for education, and the supports and challenges they encountered in their perceived reality of PK-12 education in the United States. In an effort to promote asset-based …
Multiracial Feminism
Women of color have always actively participated in women's issues. However, their experience with feminist work has often been overlooked and largely undocumented. Multiracial feminism refers to the activist and scholarly work conducted by women of color and antiracist white allies to promote race, class, and gender equality. In comparison to the highly documented second wave white, middle‐class feminism, which centered on abolishing patriarchy …
Textured Dialogues
With greater diversification of American society comes a need to forge intercultural connections that will promote and support effective education services for immigrant families. The intercultural
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
The Persistence of and Challenges to Whiteness in Parent Engagement
Purpose: School leaders who articulate a desire to center equity in their schools often neglect to examine how racism persists in their parent and family engagement strategies. This oversight can reify structures that are oppressive and exclusionary to the marginalized families school leaders claim they want to engage. Research Methods/Approach: In this study, we use case study methods to examine the way one social justice–oriented school attempt…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)