Tanetha Jamay Grosland
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About Tanetha
Dr. Grosland researches policy and political narratives in education. Her principal focus chronicles these concerning emotion, emotion rhetoric, and educators’ responses to politics and social policies.
Contributions
Why Educational Leaders and Policymakers Should Attend to Emotions
Publications
Examines the Minnesota Desegregation Rule as a cultural artifact of race-related policy in US public education. Reveals nuances, contradictions, and patterns of power and privilege that serve as masked but powerful cultural signifiers. Finds that while legal and policy remedies are positioned as a means to reduce social and structural inequality, the Rule emphasizes bureaucracy and procedure and de-emphasizes student equity and racially equitable practices. Finds the Rule relies on and perpetuates cultural routines that prescribe technical fixes to address deep structural, systemic, social, and institutionalized forms of racism.
Addresses the emotional aspects of policy response and provides suggestions to school leaders and scholars.
Disseminates of an investigation of the Minnesota Desegregation Rule and provides suggestions for policy designed to address racial inequity.
Disseminates an investigation on the classroom emotional responses to a higher education curriculum as a policy response. Includes suggestions, including a call to include emotions an aspect of education practices.