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Welcome to our research project page. It provides information on the context and background of our work. Our projects focus on two main educational areas: Teacher trainings and workplace learning.
OUR WORK
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Symbolic Violence in the Classroom: How a Eurocentric Curriculum Excludes & Marginalizes Minority Students. (Peace Chronicle, 2023)
Dr. Nahum Jean-Louis and Dr. Mary Clisbee
Abstract
In this paper, the authors address how the US, Eurocentric, K-12 public school curriculum is an expression of Symbolic Violence (SV) and, hence, has adverse impacts on minority students’ achievement and sense of belonging in the classroom.
Keywords: Symbolic violence; Eurocentrism; diversity; academic performance; cultural exclusion; microaggression
Read the full article at https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/peace-chronicle/
Teachers' Perceptions of Symbolic Violence in School Curriculum (NSU, 2022)
Dr. Nahum Jean-Louis
The study explores symbolic violence (SV) in school curriculum as a phenomenon that has historically been a problem for Black students in schools around the United States. Read the abstract.
In Search of a More Equitable Curriculum (NSU, 2019)
Dr. Nahum Jean-Louis
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Standards-based Reforms: The Tale of the Toll on Minority Students (NSU, 2019)
Dr. Nahum Jean-Louis
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The Suppression of Schools Diversity through the Standard-based Curricular Reforms
Dr. Nahum Jean-Louis
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Data-driven Decision Making (NSU, 2018)
Dr. Nahum Jean-Louis
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