CTE Administrators' perceptions and values about students

Read proposal to familiarize yourself with the topic as it relates to CTE Administrators' perceptions and values about students earning a CTE credential. To enhance chapter 1 of my proposal, I need to include Justification and Positionality sections. Those two sections must include the following information: Justification Provide evidence from the literature that demonstrates knowledge of prior studies on your topic. The following prompts may be helpful in drafting information for this section: • Why does this issue matter? • Who else cares about this? • What research is available regarding this topic? • How does this project build upon work (theoretical and practical) that has already been done? • What evidence is missing in the literature and/or the context where you will be conducting your research? Deficiencies in the evidence. Identifies evidence that is missing in the literature and/or the context where you will be conducting your research. Identities. • What is my trajectory and passion for this work? • Who am I as a student? • Who am I as a professional? • Who am I as a researcher? Exploring bias. • When considering “blind spots”, what assumptions may inhibit me from fully understanding or engaging my research population? • In what ways am I complicit in the issue I am exploring/examining? Where do I have potential to do harm? • What tools do I have to leverage power within my respective institutions? • Where is there power in the space that I am investigating? What do I want to be known for? • What relationships do I want to build with my work? • What systems do I want to build or disrupt with my work? • How will my research better position me as a scholar practitioner?