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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Student Development Entering the Third Wave
1. Waves of Change:The Evolving History of Student Development Theory
Susan R. Jones
2. Critical Race Theory: Interrogating Race and Racism in College Students’ Development
Jessica C. Harris and OiYan A. Poon
3. Intersectionality and Student Development: Centering Power in the Process
Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe
4. (Re)Framing Student Development Through Critical Feminist Theories
Claire Kathleen Robbins
5. Indigenous Paradigms: Decolonizing College Student Development Theory Through Centering Relationality
Nicole Alia Salis Reyes and Maria Tauala
6. Queer Theory: Deconstructing Sexual and Gender Identity, Norms, and Developmental Assumptions
J. Michael Denton
7. Crip Theory: Dismantling Ableism in Student Development Theory
Elisa S. Abes
Part Two: Living and Thinking with Theory
8. Resilience
Z Nicolazzo and Riss Carter
9. Dissonance
Kari B. Taylor and Danyelle J. Reynolds
10. Social Construction of Identities
D-L Stewart and Shaunda Brown
11. Complexities of Authenticity
V. Leilani Kupo (Kānaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian. and Symphony Oxendine (Cherokee/Choctaw)
12. A Black Feminist Reconstruction of Agency
Wilson Kwamogi Okello and Kiaya Demere White
13. It’s More than Us: Knowledge and Knowing
Stephanie Waterman (Onandaga Turtle Clan. and Cori Bazemore-James (Seneca, Turtle Clan)
14. Context and Contextualizing Student Development Using Critical Theory
Antonio Duran and Susan R. Jones
Part Three: Implications for a Critical Student Affairs Practice
15. Student Involvement and Engagement
Daniel Tillapaugh
16. Principles of Good Practice in Student Affairs
Susan B. Marine
17. High-Impact Practices
Alex C. Lange and D-L Stewart
Part Four: Conclusion
18. Rethinking Student Development
Elisa S. Abes, Antonio Duran, Susan R. Jones, and D-L Stewart
Editors and Contributors
Index
