What Bronx Community College Students Can Do!

Presenter:

Monique A. Guishard, Lecturer of Psychology, Social Sciences, Christopher Polidura, Alberto Salcedo, Nicole Steakin, Jeannette Torres, Student, Bronx CC

Abstract:

The dominant discourse in faculty spaces with respect to student performance too often focuses on what community college students, in need of developmental courses, can’t do. Deeply inspired by the work of Robert Glaser, Lev Vygotsky, bell hooks, and Bagele Chilisa we (Monique Guishard, and four intermediate psychology students) have collaborated using student podcasts to theorize back to deficit, damaged centered theories of student underperformance.