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Exploring Students' Agentic and Multidimensional Perceptions of Oppressive Campus Environments: The Development of a Transformational Impetus
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 1, Fall 2019
- pp. 483-517
- 10.1353/rhe.2019.0103
- Article
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Abstract:
The campus climate literature obscures the complexity of individuals' perspectives in relation to multiple dimensions of the broader learning environment. Unexamined are the ways students from marginalized backgrounds may respond to oppressive dimensions of the campus climates in unique ways that moderate observed outcome differences. To fill this gap, we leverage survey data to reveal multiple latent facets of the campus climate perceptions and explore how they potentially relate to students' development of a transformational impetus, proposed as an agentic measure of students' responses to perceived oppression in the form of a desire to change the world in the interest of social justice.