About What Counts as Holistic Development with Wilson Kwamogi Okello

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.

In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Wilson Kwamogi Okello to discuss the ontological dimensions of 'holistic,' or the nature of being, particularly what does it mean/who fits within 'the human' for human development. We dive into possibilities, the refusals of singularity and easy solutions, framed through Blackness, Black studies, and Black livingness.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Sara Ahmed's book, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
• Carmen Maria Machado's book, In the Dream House: A Memoir
• bell hooks' book, Teaching to Transgress
• William Faulkner's book, The Sound of the Fury
• Kevin Quashie's book, Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
• Alexander Weheliye's book, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
• Octavia Butler's book, Parable of the Sower

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You can get a full transcript of the episode here.