Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education: Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American Students

Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education examines how systems and structures shape definitions of academic merit and grit, constrain opportunities to attain access and equitable educational outcomes, and challenge widely held beliefs that Students of Color need grit to succeed.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 20 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education delves into the critical structural challenges currently impacting African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American students accessing college and succeeding in U.S. postsecondary environments. Drawing from the asset-based work of critical race education scholars like Yosso, Ladson-Billings, and contributing author Solórzano, the authors examine how systems and structures shape definitions of academic merit and grit, how these systems constrain opportunities for access and equitable educational outcomes, and challenge widely held beliefs that Students of Color need grit to succeed in college.

Dominant narratives of educational success and failure often place undue emphasis on individual student effort. Contributing authors explore the diverse ways in which institutional structures can support Students of Color by utilizing their strengths through critical perspectives, asset-based, and anti-deficit approaches to accessing postsecondary environments and experiencing success. This timely edited book will be of great benefit to scholars, scholar-practitioners, students affairs professionals, and educational leaders as they strive to transform postsecondary institutions into entities that meet the needs of Students and Communities of Color.

Weight: 689g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032365237