College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter - Rilegato

Ardoin, Sonja

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ISBN 10: 1498536867 ISBN 13: 9781498536868

Casa editrice: Lexington Books, 2017

Riassunto

College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter explores how a working class, rural environment influences rural students' opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice process. Based on a case study with accounts from rural high school students and counselors, this book examines how these communities perceive higher education and what challenges arise for both rural students and counselors. The book addresses how college knowledge and university jargon illustrate the gap between rural cultural capital and higher education cultural capital. Insights about approaches to reduce barriers created by college knowledge and university jargon are shared and strategies for offering rural students pathways to learn academic language and navigate higher education are presented for both secondary and higher education institutions.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Sonja Ardoin is program director and clinical assistant professor of higher education at Boston University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1498536867
• ISBN 13: 9781498536868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 156
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile