Higher education and first-generation students: cultivating community, voice, and place for the new majority

Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them. RASHNÉ RUSTOM JEHANGIR Assistant Professor in the General College and theCollege of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, USA. INDICE: PART I: GETTING THERE: FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS AND THE ROAD TO COLLEGE A Long Way from Home: Deeping our Understanding of First-Generation Students Strangers without Codebooks: Isolation and Marginalization PART II: BEING HERE: SURVIVING THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE Re-Imagining with University: Theoretical Approaches to Serving First-Generation College Students Toward Community, Connectedness, and Care PART III: GETTING THROUGH: LESSONS FROM FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS Rationale and Design for the Multicultural Learning Community Belonging and Finding Place Claiming Self: Identity and Academic Voice On Critiques and Possibilities

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62344-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido