Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack

Crystal Polite Glover; Toby S. Jenkins; Stephanie Troutman

doi:10.5771/9781498557733

Summary

Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti-deficit and positive examination of (Black, Latinx, and multiracial) culture and its role in creating educational efficacy among academics of color. Through personal narrative, educational and learning theory, creative writing/poetry, this hybrid text examines the cultural path to the doctorate.

Transformative practice should be guided by an understanding of how an appreciation of a faculty member’s cultural, life, and social experiences can be used to establish a healthy environment that will better appreciate, engage, and retain faculty of color. Along these lines, this text also considers how cultural, life and social experiences translate into pedagogy, mentorship and value as faculty of color.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5772-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5773-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 152
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1 Dirt Roads and Shot Gun Houses No access
2. PERSONAL NARRATIVES No access
1. 2 Incidents in the Life of a Bi-Racial, Gifted, Jersey Girl No access
2. PERSONAL NARRATIVES No access
1. 3 The Only One No access
2. PERSONAL NARRATIVES No access
3. 4 Conclusion No access
Index No access Pages 147 - 150
About the Authors No access Pages 151 - 152