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Faculty Research Profiles: Anjale Welton

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Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
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Research Biography

Anjalé D. Welton's scholarship primarily examines the educational opportunity structures of students of color from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Welton examines how institutional and social structures—such as race, social class, tracking, school administration and teacher leadership, etc.—shape the connections students of color make to educational resources, navigate school and ultimately matriculate to postsecondary education. Other research interests include student voice, mentoring, social justice leadership, and employing critical policy analysis (CPA) as a methodological tool for uncovering issues of inequity as well as promoting agency and transformation in P-20 educational settings. Her professional experiences include coordinator of a leadership and empowerment program for urban youth, a facilitator of an urban education teacher preparation program, and a teacher in both Washington D.C. and Austin, TX public schools.

Degrees

  • BA, Psychology, Southern Methodist University
  • MA, Educational Leadership and Policy, Higher Education, University of Maryland, College Park
  • MA, Special Education, George Washington University
  • PhD, Educational Policy and Planning, University of Texas at Austin

Activities & Honors

  • Editorial Board, Information Age Publishing (IAP) book series, New Directions in Educational Leadership: Innovations in Research, Teaching and Service, 2012- present
  • Member, University Council of Educational Administration, 2011- present
  • Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2011
  • Special Issue on Women and Social Justice: Guest Editor, Journal of School Leadership, 2009- present
  • Member, Women Leading in Education Across Continents, 2009- present

Selected Publications

  • Mansfield, K.C., Welton, A., Halx, M.D. (in press). Listening to Student Voice: Toward a More Inclusive Theory for Research and Practice. In: C. Boske & S. Diem (Eds.), Global Leadership for Social Justice: Taking it from research to practice. Charlotte, NC:  Information Age Publishing.
  • Holme, J.J., Welton, A., Diem, S. (in press). Pursuing “Separate but Equal” in Suburban Texas: A Case Study of Southern Independent School District. In: E. Frankenberg & G. Orfield. Stable diversity or resegregation in America's suburbs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
  • Reddick, R.J., Welton, A., Alsandor, D., Denyszyn, J., & Platt, S. (2011). Stories of success: High minority, high poverty public school graduate narratives on accessing higher education. Journal of Advanced Academics, 22(4), 594-618.
  • Mansfield, K. C., Welton, A., Lee, P. L. (2011). Women Leading Education Network: An Opportunity for Dialogic Border Crossings and Mentoring. In: H. Macha, C. Fahrenwald, & Q. J. Bauer (Eds.), Gender and Education Towards New Strategies of Leadership and Power (pp. 23-29). Berlin, Stuttgart: epubli, Holtzbrinck Verlagsgruppe. ISBN: 978-3-8442-1314-0.
  • Welton, A. (2011). The Courage to Critique Policies and Practices from Within: Youth Participatory Action Research as Critical Policy Analysis. A Response to “Buscando la Libertad: Latino Youths in Search of Freedom in School”, Democracy and Education, 19 (1), Article 11.

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