Date of Award
2026
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
School of Education
First Advisor
Yvonne El Ashmawi
Abstract
This dissertation examines how students' identities and personal experiences shape their encounters with both Jesuit Secondary Education and the Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP). Throughout this qualitative analysis, the researcher will examine how identity, secondary education, and corporate attitudes coexist, overlap, conflict, intersect, and compete with one another. By employing Gloria Ladsen-Billings’s Critical Race Theory (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995), Dolores Delgado Bernal and Daniel Solórzano’s contributions to Latinx Criticism (Lat Crit), (Solorzano & Bernal, 2001), Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Theory of Intersectionality (K. Crenshaw, 1989), and Tara Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth Model (Yosso, 2005), the researcher will examine how students experience “non-linear worlds” such as their own cultural identity, Jesuit Secondary Education, and corporate America. Using these lenses, the researcher will examine potential identity or personal costs that students pay in order to obtain a Jesuit College Preparatory Education. The researcher will employ Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth model to examine which capitals students exploit to be successful navigating these diverse worlds.
Recommended Citation
Walke, Bernhard Bruno, "A Trinity of Forces: A Critical Investigation of the Intersection of Lived Experience, Jesuit Secondary Education, and Corporate Curricula" (2026). Dissertations. 4329.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/4329
