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Understanding the working college student : new research and its implications for policy and practice /
This book offers the most complete and comprehensive conceptualization of the "working college student" available. It provides a multifaceted picture of the characteristics, experiences, and challenges of working college students and a more complete understanding of the heterogeneity under...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sterling, Va. :
Stylus,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword / Glenn DuBois
- Introduction / Laura W. Perna
- Section one: work as a form of financial aid
- Student work and the financial aid system / Sandy Baum
- Section two: work as a component of student identity
- Adult workers as undergraduate students: significant challenges for higher education policy and practice / Carol Kasworm
- Overcoming adversity: community college students and work / John S. Levin, Virginia Montero-Hernandez, and Christine Cerven
- Mobile working students: a delicate balance of college, family and work / Mary Ziskin, Vasti Torres, Don Hosler, and Jacob P.K. Gross
- Academic success for working adult students / Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Amy K. Swan, Nancy L. Deutsch, and Bruce Gansneder
- Section three: work as a vehicle for promoting cognitive development and learning
- Using economics to illuminate the dynamic higher education landscape / Doug Lynch, Michael Gottfried, Wendy Green, and Chris Allen Thomas
- Of a mind to labor: reconceptualizing student work and higher education / Brian Pusser
- Job fare: workplace experiences that help students learn / Jonathan S. Lewis
- Section four: work as a vehicle for improving student engagement
- Working during college: its relationship to student engagement and education outcomes / Alexander C. McCormick, John V. Moore III, and George D. Kuh
- Effects of work on African American college students' engagement / Lamont A. Flowers
- Impact of working on undergraduate students' interactions with faculty / Paul D. Umbach, Ryan D. Padgett, and Ernest T. Pascarella
- Section five: work as a vehicle for improving educational and economic attainment
- Understanding the relationship between working while in college and future salaries / Marvin A. Titus
- Conclusions and recommendations for policy, practice, and future research / Laura W. Perna
- About the authors and editors
- Index.