Culture, community, and educational success : reimagining the invisible knapsack

Culture, community, and educational success : reimagining the invisible knapsack / Crystal Polite Glover, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman.

This book offers an opportunity for an anti deficit and positive examination of Black/Black-multiracial culture and its role in creating educational efficacy among academics of color. Through personal narrative, educational and learning theory, and creative writing/poetry, this hybrid text examines...

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Main Authors: Glover, Crystal Polite, 1974- (Author), Jenkins, Toby S. (Toby Susann), 1975- (Author), Robbins, Stephanie Troutman, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
Series:Race and education in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
African Americans > Education (Graduate)
Academic achievement.
Doctor of philosophy degree.
doctoral degrees.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Academic achievement
Doctor of philosophy degree
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: coming back to the park: community cultural wealth as a source of strength, knowledge and sustenance
  • Introduction: cultural endowments
  • Part I: Redefining Wealth: Family, Community, and Education Beyond School; Dirt Roads and Shot Gun Houses: where does a genius call home?
  • Personal narratives
  • Part II: Intersecting Identities: Personal Geography/ies, Social Class, and Race; Incidents in the Life of a Bi-Racial, Gifted, Jersey Girl
  • Personal narratives
  • Part III: Navigating Tough Terrain: Cultural Resistance, Schooling Culture, and Liberatory Education; The Only One: a Black girl's experience in gifted and talented education
  • Personal narratives.

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