Full Description
A major new contribution to college student development theory, this book brings "third wave" theories to bear on this vitally important topic.
The first section includes a chapter that provides an overview of the evolution of student development theories as well as chapters describing the critical and poststructural theories most relevant to the next iteration of student development theory. These theories include critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theories, intersectionality, decolonizing/indigenous theories, and crip theories. These chapters also include a discussion of how each theory is relevant to the central questions of student development theory.
The second section provides critical interpretations of the primary constructs associated with student development theory. These constructs and their related ideas include resilience, dissonance, socially constructed identities, authenticity, agency, context, development (consistency/coherence/stability), and knowledge (sources of truth and belief systems). Each chapter begins with brief personal narratives on a particular construct; the chapter authors then re-envision the narrative's highlighted construct using one or more critical theories.
The third section will focus on implications for practice. Specifically, these chapters will consider possibilities for how student development constructs re-envisioned through critical perspectives can be utilized in practice.
The primary audience for the book is faculty members who teach in graduate programs in higher education and student affairs and their students. The book will also be useful to practitioners seeking guidance in working effectively with students across the convergence of multiple aspects of identity and development.
Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Student Development Entering the Third Wave 1. Waves of Change:The Evolving History of Student Development Theory 2. Critical Race Theory: Interrogating Race and Racism in College Students' Development 3. Intersectionality and Student Development: Centering Power in the Process 4. (Re)Framing Student Development Through Critical Feminist Theories 5. Indigenous Paradigms: Decolonizing College Student Development Theory Through Centering Relationality 6. Queer Theory: Deconstructing Sexual and Gender Identity, Norms, and Developmental Assumptions 7. Crip Theory: Dismantling Ableism in Student Development Theory Part Two: Living and Thinking with Theory 8. Resilience 9. Dissonance 10. Social Construction of Identities 11. Complexities of Authenticity 12. A Black Feminist Reconstruction of Agency 13. It's More than Us: Knowledge and Knowing 14. Context and Contextualizing Student Development Using Critical Theory Part Three: Implications for a Critical Student Affairs Practice 15. Student Involvement and Engagement 16. Principles of Good Practice in Student Affairs 17. High-Impact Practices Part Four: Conclusion 18. Rethinking Student Development Editors and Contributors Index
