Addressing privilege not marginalization : analysis of White evaluators’ perspectives on privilege
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Christopher M. Hall (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Ayesha Boyce
Abstract: This study uses a phenomenological qualitative approach to interviewing privileged White evaluators to construct an operational definition for privilege, and investigates methods of evaluators addressing marginalization, leveraging positional privilege, and considerations of the roles and responsibilities of White evaluators to directly address racism and other forms of oppression. There is not, within evaluation scholarship previous to this study, an operational or working definition of “privilege”, nor direct investigation into methods of addressing privileged stakeholders. Examples of interrogating privilege that are explored in this study include understanding how individuals and groups with positional privilege may dominate the evaluand, cause conditions that perpetuate marginalization, and potential organized responses to privilege within evaluation contexts and settings. Several implications from this study include the ability to investigate privilege using the operational definition provided, examination of leveraging positional privilege both within evaluation contexts and beyond, and places where evaluation practice may benefit from understanding and using the concept of kyriarchy to better engage multiple layers of privileged and marginalized identities.
Addressing privilege not marginalization : analysis of White evaluators’ perspectives on privilege
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2022
- Keywords
- Evaluation, Intersectionality, Marginalization, Phenomenology, Positionality, Privilege
- Subjects
- Educational evaluation $x Social aspects
- Privilege (Social psychology)
- Intersectionality (Sociology)