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- Title
Using critical race theory to reframe mentor training: theoretical considerations regarding the ecological systems of mentorship.
- Authors
Vargas, Jose H.; Saetermoe, Carrie L.; Chavira, Gabriela
- Abstract
This article offers a theoretical and critical analysis of race-dysconscious mentorship involving students of color and white faculty. Inspired by ecological systems theory, critical race theory, and the NIH-funded program, Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity: Promoting Opportunities for Diversity in Education and Research, our analysis considers the ecosystems that promote student pushout and hinder diversification of the scientific workforce, which call for "critical" alternatives to traditional research mentorship. We first examine the historical, social–political, institutional, interpersonal, and intrapsychic ecosystems of traditional mentor–protégé relationships. Two areas are reviewed: (a) "diversity" as it operates in universities and research laboratories and (b) the discursive properties of a dysconscious dialog that rationalizes modern racism. Next, we connect the five ecosystems of mentorship by integrating literature on critical history, white consciousness, the interpersonal context of mentoring, and mentor–protégé phenomenology. Our analysis demonstrates how the racialized lives of members involved in a mentoring relationship are situated within racist macro-level ecological systems wherein intrapsychic and interpersonal actions and discourses unfold. The development of race-consciousness and anti-racist faculty mentor training programs is also discussed.
- Subjects
MENTORING in education; DIVERSITY in education; RACISM in higher education; CRITICAL race theory; ECOLOGICAL systems theory; TEACHER-student relationships; HIGHER education
- Publication
Higher Education (00181560), 2021, Vol 81, Issue 5, p1043
- ISSN
0018-1560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10734-020-00598-z