Critical Considerations of Power in Academia: An Emerging Theory of Growth Rooted in The Margins of Love, Solidarity and Praxis

This paper is an exploration of the ways in which power is enacted and reproduced within the academy, as well as a consideration of possibilities for growth at both the personal and the institutional levels. The authors worked together in an academic setting. One of the authors is a tenured faculty member, and the other two authors were staff managing the graduate program and its practicum education stream. Using individual and collective auto-ethnography, as well as critical grounded theory approach to data collection and analysis, the authors suggest a theory of growth that is rooted in the margins of love, solidarity, and praxis.