Using the Psychosociocultural Approach to Academic Persistence and Educational Wellness
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 April 2021) | Viewed by 3799
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
As higher education is a time of specific development that requires students to draw from their strengths and processes to navigate the educational demands and expectations, understanding how the person (student) and environment (college/university) inform each other warrants exploration. Specifically, examining the dimensionality of students’ noncognitive processes within the educational setting and interplay of strength-based processes for persistence and educational wellness is needed for an integrated and contextual understanding. This call for papers seeks data-informed (qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, cross-sectional or longitudinal) and/or conceptually-integrative (application or systemic review) scholarship that addresses students’ interrelated individual and collective dimensions of the psychological, social, and cultural within the higher education setting (e.g., community college, research university, arts conservatory, technology institute, public, private).
In particular, this Special Issue seeks scholarly work that implements a psychosociocultural approach to student persistence and educational wellness (Gloria and Rodriguez, 2000). A psychosociocultural approach considers three interrelated dimensions of the psychological, social, and cultural within the higher education setting. As a meta-model, the psychological dimension includes self-beliefs, self-perceptions, and attitudes that students hold about themselves as learners, scholars, researchers and clinicians, performers, and advocates within the educational setting. The psychological dimension involves strength-based approaches, cognitions, behaviors, and attitudes that support their abilities and strengths. The social dimension addresses perceptions of relationships and connections, elements of interactions, and expectations from others who are inside and outside of the higher education setting as well as expectations and influences from broader society. The social dimensions involve individual, group, and larger systems of support that include but are not limited to family, church, school, and/or community. Finally, the cultural dimension attends to values, orientations, and worldviews that stem from identities (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, indigeneity, socioeconomic, college generation, student) and how these inform, interact, or align with those of higher education. In combination, the dimensions inform how students persist and navigate higher education contexts (e.g., classroom, student organization, residence hall, athletics/sports settings, research lab, performance studio, campus in general) and in turn persist and are educationally-sustained.
Papers selected for this Special Issue will have a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Prof. Alberta M. Gloria
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- person–environment
- whole student
- higher education
- self-beliefs
- support systems
- cultural values
- integrated wellness
- strength-based persistence
