Shawn R Coon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4642272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawn R Coon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawn R |
| FAMILY NAME | Coon |
| SIGNATURE | COON S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Education, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3102-8319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Moving Beyond the Observable: What Distinct Values Contributed to Utah's Postsecondary Sector Changes in the United States
Research on higher education policy in the United States often seeks to understand commonalities across state contexts to understand broader concepts influencing decision‐making. However, this minimises the importance of abstract and distinct factors impacting policy processes within a state. While researchers in other fields attribute these non‐tangible characteristics to a state's culture, a similar concept has yet to emerge within the higher e…
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts
State-level postsecondary education governance has experienced a lull in successful reform efforts since the turn of the century. However, in 2020, the Utah System of Higher Education and Utah System of Technical Colleges were formally merged following a multi-year effort by state legislators and higher education officials. Framed by the theory of social construction and policy design, this study considers underlying institutional considerations …
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School
Many urban public schools are often perceived as inclusive due to the demographics of their diverse student populations. This myth of inclusivity reifies notions of equity in both education and broader society. However, upon closer inspection, this myth of inclusion crumbles once immersed within an urban high school. In this article, I present the concept of the inclusion mirage. Through the utilization of critical ethnographic methods, I uncover…
Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Methods: A Review and Future Directions
Critical race studies in qualitative research: A review and future directions
In 2021, former President Donald Trump issued a presidential memo halting and prohibiting “divisive” and “anti-American propaganda” in federal contracting--described as “any training on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘white privilege,’ or any other training and propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil”. Unsurprisingl…
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Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Methods: A Review and Future Directions
Critical race studies in qualitative research: A review and future directions
In 2021, former President Donald Trump issued a presidential memo halting and prohibiting “divisive” and “anti-American propaganda” in federal contracting--described as “any training on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘white privilege,’ or any other training and propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil”. Unsurprisingl…
Moving Beyond the Observable: What Distinct Values Contributed to Utah's Postsecondary Sector Changes in the United States
Research on higher education policy in the United States often seeks to understand commonalities across state contexts to understand broader concepts influencing decision‐making. However, this minimises the importance of abstract and distinct factors impacting policy processes within a state. While researchers in other fields attribute these non‐tangible characteristics to a state's culture, a similar concept has yet to emerge within the higher e…
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts
State-level postsecondary education governance has experienced a lull in successful reform efforts since the turn of the century. However, in 2020, the Utah System of Higher Education and Utah System of Technical Colleges were formally merged following a multi-year effort by state legislators and higher education officials. Framed by the theory of social construction and policy design, this study considers underlying institutional considerations …
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School
Many urban public schools are often perceived as inclusive due to the demographics of their diverse student populations. This myth of inclusivity reifies notions of equity in both education and broader society. However, upon closer inspection, this myth of inclusion crumbles once immersed within an urban high school. In this article, I present the concept of the inclusion mirage. Through the utilization of critical ethnographic methods, I uncover…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Critical race theory (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (2 works) · Postsecondary education (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)