Bandwidth Recovery

Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-80716-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Bandwidth Recovery explores how students’ cognitive resources are diminished by persistent economic insecurity, childhood trauma, and marginalization, while offering strategies and interventions to help learners regain the bandwidth they need to succeed in college.

When college students feel like they don’t belong – or are fearful, uncertain, or otherwise prevented from being their authentic selves – much of the mental bandwidth needed for learning is not available. When they are food insecure, financially unstable, or coping with the effects of childhood trauma, cognitive capacity is likewise diminished. Beginning with analysis of the most up-to-date research on the mental and physical impact of poverty, racism, and other forms of social marginalization, Cia Verschelden presents vetted approaches for promoting a growth mindset and self-efficacy in students. Readers will learn to develop supports that build upon students’ values and prior knowledge with the goal of creating a sense of belonging and community both in and out of the classroom. New to this edition are updated terminology and discussions of neurodiversity, childhood trauma, economic inequality, and the ongoing effects of the COVID pandemic.

This book is intended for all higher education faculty, student affairs professionals, administrators, and scholars interested in creating learning environments where every student has the chance to succeed.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verschelden, Cia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Bandwidth Tax of Marginalization: Poverty, Racism, and Economic Inequality  1. Physical Health  2. Mental Health  3. Economic Inequality and Its Cost in Human Capacity  4. Available Cognitive Capacity – Bandwidth  Part 2: Sociopsychological Underminers: Broken Connection  5. Childhood Trauma  6. Belonging Uncertainty  7. Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat  8. Human Connection  9. Focus on LGBTQ Students  10. Neurodiversity  11. Uncertainty: Existential Anxieties  Part 3: Supporting Bandwidth Recovery  12. Trauma-informed/Asset-focused Practice  13. Belonging: Building Community/Intentional Connection  14. Decreasing Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat  15. Growth Mindset  16. Minimizing Uncertainty: Institutional Structures and Processes

Über Autor(innen)

Cia Verschelden has over 30 years of faculty, administrative, and student affairs experience at both two- and four-year public institutions. Most recently, she was a Special Projects Advisor at the Association of American Colleges and Universities and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Malcolm X College in Chicago. She holds an EdD from Harvard University and an MSW from the University of Connecticut.