From group mentoring to collective liberation: The imperative to decolonize nursing academia.

Collaborative autoethnography Critical pedagogy Decolonization Liberation Mentoring Minoritized faculty

Journal

Nursing outlook
ISSN: 1528-3968
Titre abrégé: Nurs Outlook
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401075

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 Jun 2024
Historique:
received: 01 10 2023
revised: 25 03 2024
accepted: 11 05 2024
medline: 12 6 2024
pubmed: 12 6 2024
entrez: 12 6 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Four Black early-career faculty members, one Black doctoral student, and a Black senior faculty member, (herein referred to as scholars), previously engaged in cross-cultural mentoring with a White senior researcher to bolster their scholarship. In the years following the 2020 racial reckoning, the scholars were motivated to reconvene by the realization that traditional scholarship activities of academia ignore historical educational oppression and fail to account for the contemporary effects of racism and discrimination rooted in American colonialism. Collaborative autoethnography, a decolonizing qualitative approach to research, was used to explicate our journeys in academia. The tenets of Freire's critical pedagogy (conscientização, scholarship, praxis) framed our collective experiences. We describe resisting academic structures of power, discrimination, and disadvantage through reformation, crafting a vision statement, and utilizing positions of influence. To decolonize nursing academia, we implore the scholarly community to pursue liberation and contest structures that center Whiteness and marginalize collectivism and collaboration.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Four Black early-career faculty members, one Black doctoral student, and a Black senior faculty member, (herein referred to as scholars), previously engaged in cross-cultural mentoring with a White senior researcher to bolster their scholarship.
PURPOSE OBJECTIVE
In the years following the 2020 racial reckoning, the scholars were motivated to reconvene by the realization that traditional scholarship activities of academia ignore historical educational oppression and fail to account for the contemporary effects of racism and discrimination rooted in American colonialism.
METHODS METHODS
Collaborative autoethnography, a decolonizing qualitative approach to research, was used to explicate our journeys in academia. The tenets of Freire's critical pedagogy (conscientização, scholarship, praxis) framed our collective experiences.
DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS
We describe resisting academic structures of power, discrimination, and disadvantage through reformation, crafting a vision statement, and utilizing positions of influence.
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
To decolonize nursing academia, we implore the scholarly community to pursue liberation and contest structures that center Whiteness and marginalize collectivism and collaboration.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38865750
pii: S0029-6554(24)00097-6
doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102204
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

102204

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Auteurs

Charlene J Gamboa (CJ)

Office of Research Affairs, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: charlene_gamboa@rush.edu.

Monique Reed (M)

Department of Community, Systems, Mental Health Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: monique_reed@rush.edu.

Dawn T Bounds (DT)

Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. Electronic address: boundsd@hs.uci.edu.

Fawn A Cothran (FA)

National Alliance of Caregiving, Washington, DC. Electronic address: fawn@caregiving.org.

Jen'nea Sumo (J)

Department of Women, Children & Family Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: jen'nea_sumo@rush.edu.

Wrenetha A Julion (WA)

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: wrenetha_a_julion@rush.edu.

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