Papers by Heather J Shotton
Routledge eBooks, Jun 21, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Jun 22, 2023
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education, 2019
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education, 2019
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2022
World Literature Today, 2019
American Indian Quarterly, 2018
Abstract:Native students remain largely underrepresented in doctoral education. However, in recen... more Abstract:Native students remain largely underrepresented in doctoral education. However, in recent years we have witnessed an increase in participation in graduate education for Native students, particularly for Native women. Reciprocity has been explored as a motivating factor for Native students in undergraduate education, and education has become a necessary component of capacity building in tribal nation building. It seems imperative that we take a closer look at the role of reciprocity in doctoral education as an act of tribal nation building. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, this study explores the experiences of Native women in doctoral education and the varied ways that Native women create pathways to the PhD. An important finding from this study reveals the central role of reciprocity in the motivation and persistence to completion for Native women in doctoral education. Findings indicate that Native women viewed a doctorate as a means for bettering their tribe/community or forwarding a research agenda that would benefit Native people in general. This article seeks to further elucidate the role of reciprocity in the context of nation building through doctoral education.
Journal of American Indian Education, 2017
Native students often face hostile and unwelcoming environments when they enter Non-Native Colleg... more Native students often face hostile and unwelcoming environments when they enter Non-Native Colleges and Universities. While conversations about racism in higher education have addressed the prevalence of racial microaggressions among marginalized populations, the issue of racial microaggressions against Native doctoral students, specifically Native women, has not been adequately addressed. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, this study explores the experiences of Native women in doctoral education in the United States. The findings indicate that encounters with racism, particularly racial microaggressions, were common experiences for Native women in doctoral programs. Racial microaggressions were experienced in the overall campus climate, the classroom, and in encounters with White peers and faculty in the form of microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations. The findings also provide insight into the complex and unique nature of racism experienced by Native women in doctoral education and demonstrate the need for deeper conversations that interrogate systemic, structural, and subtle forms of racism against Native people in higher education.
Choice Reviews Online, 2013
Qualitative Inquiry
In this article, we explore the concept of Indigenous scholar sisterhood practices and its powerf... more In this article, we explore the concept of Indigenous scholar sisterhood practices and its powerful role in affirming Indigenous women to survive and thrive in the act of research and the larger academic landscape. We address how we, as Indigenous women scholars, extend beyond transactional validity practices in qualitative research and engage in a collective form of validity that is holistic and grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing. We explore what it means to live our research and reclaim academic spaces among a collective sisterhood, as we grapple with questions of what valid and rigorous research looks like from an Indigenous perspective. Recognizing that attempts to decolonize methodological spaces can be complex and tempered with struggles, we provide personal accounts of Indigenous scholar sisterhood practices of love, prayer, vulnerability, and resistance and protection used to maneuver through this space together. As Indigenous women scholars, we conclude by reimagining t...
Qualitative Inquiry, Dec 21, 2017
In this article, we explore the concept of Indigenous scholar sisterhood practices and its powerf... more In this article, we explore the concept of Indigenous scholar sisterhood practices and its powerful role in affirming Indigenous women to survive and thrive in the act of research and the larger academic landscape. We address how we, as Indigenous women scholars, extend beyond transactional validity practices in qualitative research and engage in a collective form of validity that is holistic and grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing. We explore what it means to live our research and reclaim academic spaces among a collective sisterhood, as we grapple with questions of what valid and rigorous research looks like from an Indigenous perspective. Recognizing that attempts to decolonize methodological spaces can be complex and tempered with struggles, we provide personal accounts of Indigenous scholar sisterhood practices of love, prayer, vulnerability, and resistance and protection used to maneuver through this space together. As Indigenous women scholars, we conclude by reimagining the value of collective work as a means to not only survive academia but lift up our communities.
This article addresses the problematic deficiency in research and scholarship that centers Indige... more This article addresses the problematic deficiency in research and scholarship that centers Indigenous women's voices in educational leadership. As Indigenous women scholars, we engaged a qualitative study that involved Indigenous women leaders from across the United States, and our discussion in this work focuses on the perspectives of Indigenous women working in education. We first provide a current snapshot of Indigenous women in postsecondary education and review preliminary theories on Indigenous leadership. We highlight cultural, social, and political factors that influence Indigenous women educational leaders, and we conclude with recommendations for the cultivation of future Indigenous women leaders.
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Papers by Heather J Shotton