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Understanding how Professional Career Decisions Were Made by Victims of Academic Bullying
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This presentation will address how academic bullying impacted the career decisions and professional journeys of the gay male faculty of color who had experience of being bullied in higher education.
Target Audience
This session focuses on adult bullying related to racism, homophobia, and heterosexism in postsecondary education. So, the primary target audience for this session should be educators, adult learners, graduate students, and administrators in higher education and in community settings, counselors, social activists, human resource professionals, and others who are pursuing social justice and equality in their field. In addition, the session would benefit workforce educators such as educators who work in the military or at corporations by helping them gain a better understanding of how bullying affects diverse and multicultural populations.
Learning Outcomes
After having attended this session, the participants will be able to: 1) demonstrate an understanding of adult bullying centering on racism, homophobia, and heterosexism; 2) develop a capacity to identify and analyze adult bullying in higher education and other educational settings for adults; 3) better consider how to develop and evaluate policies that will reduce and eliminate bullying in higher education; and 4) consider related avenues of social justice action for implementation in their practices.
Session Description
When researchers study violence in workplaces and in educational settings, they often focus narrowly on visible or physical incidents of violence. However, bullying is not always a visible or physical incident of violence and most of the time is a difficult phenomenon to detect, so it is not usually explicitly covered under workplace laws or policies or by policies or laws protecting students, faculty, and staff in postsecondary education. Bullied adults are unlikely to be protected and might be prone to feeling threatened every day at workplaces or educational settings. Besides that, there has not yet been a study completed that focused specifically on how career decisions were made by victims of bullying who experience an intersection of racist and homophobic type bullying. Considering all of those factors, this presentation will provide participants with a relatively new concept of adult career development from the victims of homophobic and racist bullying.
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Thursday November 7