Developing alternative student development frameworks and models,
this groundbreaking book provides student affairs practitioners, as
well as faculty, with illuminating perspectives and viable
approaches for understanding the development of today's diverse
student populations, and for building the foundation for their
academic success and self-authorship. With the increasing number of
adult working students, minoritized, multiracial, LGTBQ, and
first-generation students, this book offers readers vital insights
into, and ways to interrogate, existing practice, and develop
relevant responses to the needs of these populations. Building on
and critiquing the past frameworks, and integrating the insights of
contemporary scholarship on student development, the contributors
collectively put forward a robust theoretical and methodological
foundation for this work, using Critical Race Theory as their
central frame. CRT allows chapter authors to situate race related
encounters at the center of their proposed alternative framework or
model, and deconstruct and challenge commonly held assumptions
about diverse college student development. In the tradition of CRT,
each author offers an alternative model or framework that can be
applied to the diverse population upon which the chapter is framed,
prompting readers to address such questions as: Who are our college
students? What set of experiences do our students bring to the
higher education context? What role have their
environments/contexts (i.e. home, p-12, community, family, peer
groups, mentors) played in our student's lives? What impact have
intervening variables (i.e. race, oppression, power) had on their
experiences? What strategies do they use to overcome developmental
obstacles? How do they define success, and how they know they have
achieved it? By laying bare the experiences of these diverse
college students that inform this volume's "alternative" frameworks
this book contests that notion that they constitute square pegs
that must fit into the round holes of traditional frameworks.
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