American Dream for Students of Color

Myths and Barriers to Educational Success

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

In The American Dream for Students of Color, the tenets of the American Dream as a merit narrative enacted in schools are examined to better understand how beliefs about talent, hard work, and perseverance support the status quo rather than critical analyze barriers to educational success for students of color and students from a poverty context. Using narrative methodologies, this book explores the connections and consistencies within and between their personal narratives and the narratives of school youth and educators that work with them. Based on analysis of these shared stories, the authors argue for the importance of moving from individualized success stories that reify hard work and perseverance to collective, communal stories that serve to break down myths of meritocracy, critically examine inequities, and move educational advocates forward in authentic, audacious, hopeful ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-24
Mått:151 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt:186 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:116
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793610997

Utforska kategorier

Utbildningsstrategier och utbildningspolitik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Gretchen Givens Generett is the Interim Dean and professor in the School of Education at Duquesne University. Amy M. Olson is associate professor of educational psychology and classroom assessment in the department of educational foundations and leadership at Duquesne University.

Recensioner i media

Drawing on their own stories as well as those of students and educators, Givens (now Givens Generett) and Olson challenge the merit narrative underlying the US school system, critiquing the emphasis on talent, hard work, and individual perseverance and the ignorance of systemic barriers to educational success. Although this call to adopt a system-based perspective in understanding students of color is not the first of its kind, the authors offer a unique narrative lens that hints at the intersectionality of race, class, gender, sexuality, and immigration status in the merit narrative rather than directly applying race analysis frameworks, such as critical race theory. Recommended. General readers through graduate students; two-year program students.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: The Stories that Shaped UsChapter Two: The Stories Educators TellChapter Three: The Stories Students TellChapter Four: Reframing the Stories we TellChapter Five: The Stories We Aspire to Tell