Dyanis Conrad

Randolph-Macon College

On average, English Language Learners (ELLs) spend most of their day in mainstream classrooms where many classroom teachers indicate that they feel unprepared to provide them with effective instruction. With the current educational emphasis on literacy development and standardized testing results, and the high number of ELLs identified as needing t...

International graduate students deal with an array of stress when arriving in the United States for the purpose of their studies. This stress relates to various difficulties with regards to their acculturation process. In the absence of family and friends, the importance of counselling services on campus is a vital resource for the support of inter...

In this qualitative research project, I explore the lived experiences of five Caribbean students studying at a rural university on the East Coast of the United States. I investigate the social and academic experiences of these young adult Caribbean students and focus on their perspectives and coping strategies as they negotiate the norms and expect...

Abstract Students of color in urban areas experience a multitude of intersecting oppressive structures that influence their behavior in schools. As a result, teachers in these schools often face distinct student behavior challenges to which they are often ill-equipped to respond. Colorblind approaches to student misbehavior, those that do not ackno...

The shortage of teachers of color, specifically Black female teachers, is a problem that detrimentally impacts students in US public schools. The high turnover of Black teachers may be caused by the poor working conditions they experience in their schools. However, the literature lacks a broad overview that gives a national perspective on how worki...

The author explores the power inherent in the use of language in our daily lives. Connecting her ideas and experiences with her Trinbagonian culture, the author notes that language is not only an instrument of communication, but is also representative of class, community, and cultural norms. Switching among variations of U.S. and Trinbagonian Engli...

In this chapter, the author reflects on immigration experiences during her journey through academia and on how exposure to critical pedagogy and autoethnography contributed to her personal perspectives and overall worldview. Through vignettes and theoretical discussion, she explores the symbolic violence inherent in the process of personal decoloni...

In an introductory experience of accidental ethnography (Poulos, 2010), a doctoral student and recent divorcee, exposes her journey through personal trauma, and coming out on the other side. This autoethnographic exploration documents the failures and triumphs that shaped her life experiences, and placed her on the path to who she would become pers...

In this paper, we heuristically examine teacher education practices that challenge normative beliefs about race, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, and ability. Notions of diversity and multicultural education are infused throughout the programme we examine, with resultant discussions that tend to create contentious and volatile interactions, both...