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

Glover, Crystal Polite; Jenkins, Toby S.; Troutman, Stephanie

ISBN 10: 1498557724 / ISBN 13: 9781498557726

Published by Lexington Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Culture, Community, and Educational Success : Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498557724
• ISBN 13: 9781498557726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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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.

About the Author

Toni Williams is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, UK.