Full Description
Student affairs work—like higher education—is fundamentally about change. Principally, the change work performed by student affairs practitioners is about supporting the growth and development of individual students and student groups. Increasingly, that work has called for practitioners to become more active in working to change higher education so that it lives up to its radically democratic, inclusive ideals. This means adopting new strategies to transform student affairs staff, students, and institutions, and drawing on insights from critical, liberatory theories. This text represents an effort to describe and document these practices of intentionally centering critical theories.The first section of this text examines the ways that critically-minded practitioners lead through equitable, liberatory frameworks, offering important models for reimagining the future of higher education. In the second section, the editors take up thinking and acting to support the development of critical consciousness in students, providing examples of programs, initiatives, and student support offices that center social justice in their work, and foster a critical lens through their interactions with students. In their conclusion, the editors provide a model for critical praxis, offering enduring strategies for practitioners seeking to incorporate critical, socially just praxis into their everyday work, and defining areas for future research and praxis, including identifying strategies for effective assessment of critical praxis, and modalities for "scaling up" the work for maximal impact.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction —Susan B. Marine and Chelsea Gilbert Part One. Centering Critical Praxis in Student Affairs Leadership 1. Critical Praxis in Student Affairs Supervision. A Trauma-Informed Approach —Chelsea Gilbert 2. Critical Praxis With Undocumented Students in Medical Education —Sunny Nakae, Denisse Rojas Marquez, Yadira Ortiz, and Angela Chuan-Ru Chen 3. Not Marginal, Just Mattering. Community Colleges in Student Affairs Practice —Marci Rockey, Colvin T. Georges Jr. Krystal Andrews, and Eboni M. Zamana Gallaher 4. Centering Social Justice to Understand and Address Sexual Violence —Mari Knuth-Bouracee and Kiara Lee 5. A Critical Praxis of Interconnectivity in Student Affairs —Kyle C. Ashlee and Aeriel A. Ashlee Part Two. Engaging Students in Critical Praxis 6. Cultivating Intersectional Conciousness. Considerations and Suggestions From LGBTQ Resource Center Professionals —Alex C. Lange, Nicole Bravo, Bailey Krestakos, and Alex Sylvester 7. Empowering Latinx Students Through Culturally Relevant Leadership Learning —Maritza Torres and Jane Rodriguez 8. Critical Leadership Education for Fraternity and Sorority Leaders — Carter Gilbert 9. Pondering Possibilities. A Critical Reimagining of Residence Life Staff Training — Rachel Wagner and Nick Thuot 10. Catalyzing Social Justice Through Classroom Praxis. Constructing an Advanced Social Justice Course —Susan B. Marine and Chris Haigh Conclusion. Social Justice in Action. A Model for Critical Praxis —Chelsea Gilbert and Susan B. Marine Contributors Index
