BackHome
Refresh: Off
Session Summary
Share...

Direct link:

Reimagining Help-Seeking Contexts for Minoritized College Students: Toward Equity-Focused and Asset-Based Research

Thu, April 11, 10:50am to 12:20pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 111B

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Academic help-seeking is an important motivated, self-regulated learning strategy; however, few studies have implemented equity-focused and asset-based approaches to understand help-seeking contexts. Our session aims to reimagine the research on help-seeking and interrogate how help-seeking is experienced for minoritized college students by unpacking the complex processes and contexts involved when fostering equitable environments that facilitate student help-seeking. Our session will achieve these goals by sharing results from four innovative studies using qualitative (thematic and autoethnographic), quantitative, or mixed-method designs. The studies highlight the assets learners possess (agency, cultural wealth), the costs incurred when help-seeking, and the contexts and systems that encourage or discourage help-seeking. Implications for advancing our conceptual understanding of the sociocultural nature of help-seeking will be discussed.

Sub Unit

Chairs

Papers

Discussant