Systems, Capacity, and Infrastructure: Holistically Supporting Individuals and Organizations in Anti-Racist and Equitable Transformation
- Conlin, Dana Marie
- Advisor(s): Villavicencio, Adriana;
- van Es, Elizabeth
Abstract
Uprooting racial injustice in education requires moving beyond changing individuals’ consciousness to shifting how school organizations operate. However, system-wide and organizational efforts to understand how to advance racial equity are relatively understudied. In this dissertation, I leveraged three separate research projects and focal areas to understand how individuals within and outside school systems build organizational supports and infrastructures to advance justice. These focal areas included a school, a district, and prior research on anti-racist professional development and learning. As such, I aim to provide insight on processes of change within schools and within districts as well as understand how to improve professional learning contexts to support them in justice work.