Department Chair of Music at Berea College
About
As a polymath, Javier Clavere's research interests includes semiotics, systems theory, sacred music, popular music and semiotics, Foucault studies, semiotics and globalization, multi-modality, and the semiotics of educational processes. Javier is the executive director of the Semiotic Society of America, a philosophical society dedicated to the study of signs and meaning.
His research in educational leadership includes peace and conflict resolution-transformation through the arts, as well as leadership in systemic change, diversity and inclusion, higher education administration, assessment in higher education, and strategic program design. He is a fellow, "Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peace-Building and the Arts," Salzburg Global Seminars in Salzburg, Austria; and a fellow in the New Leadership Academy, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, and the University of Michigan.
His later research concentrates in assessment, multi-culturalism, assessment cycles as tools for academic success, assessment and fairness, and diversity in assessment methodologies. He teaches a capstone research seminar course in the general education area where students are invited to use a multi-disciplinary approach to complete a substantive research in diversity and globalization, semiotics, and global multiculturalism.
Current Work:
Dr. Clavere's current research project focuses on assessment and diversity approaches in promoting fairness for Latinx students. New waves of educational and institutional assessment are not taking into consideration multicontextuality creating greater gaps in underrepresentation and access in Latinx students. His research aims to map and design an strategic approach to fairness in assessment through multicontextuality, signification systems, and anthroposemiosis.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Multiculturalism, diversity, assessment, semiotics, system theory
