Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack (Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century) - Hardcover

Crystal Polite Glover; Toby S. Jenkins; Stephanie Troutman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498557724 ISBN 13: 9781498557726

Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2018

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Toby S. Jenkins is Associate professor in the curriculum studies program at the University of South Carolina.

Stephanie Troutman is the assistant professor of Emerging Literacies at The University of Arizona.

Anita Rao Mysore is associate professor at Christ University, Bengaluru, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498557724
• ISBN 13: 9781498557726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184