Accepting educational responsibility for whiteness in academic advising: moving towards anti-racist advising practices. Issue 4 (21st April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sarcedo, Geneva L.
• Is Part Of: International journal of qualitative studies in education. Volume 35:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 410
• Page End: 424
• Publication Date: 2022-04-21
• Subjects: Academic advising -- anti-racist practices -- counterstory -- whiteness-at-work; Education -- Research -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Recherche -- Périodiques; Sciences de l'éducation -- Méthodes qualitatives -- Périodiques; 370.72
• DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2021.2003899
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-8398

Abstract

Abstract: Academic advisors serve as a front-line resource for college students and greatly contribute to student success. However, the presence of whiteness-at-work, or the everyday yet insidious practices that allow whiteness in education to go unchallenged, positions advisors to either perpetuate or dismantle whiteness in their advising practices. This paper uses composite counterstory in the tradition of critical race theory by weaving together the accounts of several academic advisors of Color working at historically white institutions with other sources to develop an understanding of how whiteness-at-work operates within academic advising. Recommendations for advisors and institutions of higher education are offered to move the field of academic advising toward more racially-just advising practices that disrupt whiteness.