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College and the working class : what it takes to make it /
What are the meanings, experiences, and impact of college for working-class people? The author of this book addresses the two questions, what is college like for working-class students, and what is college for the working class? In The Other Three Percent, the author draws on a wealth of previous re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rotterdam ; Boston :
SensePublishers,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Mobility studies and education ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What are the meanings, experiences, and impact of college for working-class people? The author of this book addresses the two questions, what is college like for working-class students, and what is college for the working class? In The Other Three Percent, the author draws on a wealth of previous research to tell the stories of five very different working-class college students as they apply to, enter, successfully navigate, and complete college. Through these stories readers will learn about the obstacles working-class students face and overcome, the costs and effectiveness of higher education as a mechanism of social mobility, and the problems caused on our college campuses by our reticence to meaningfully confront the class divide. Readers will be invited to compare their own experiences of higher education with those of the students here described, and to evaluate their own institutions' openness towards working-class students through a series of checklists provided in the book's conclusion. Allison L. Hurst is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She is a member of the Association of Working-Class Academics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 190 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789460917523 9460917526 946091750X 9789460917509 9460917518 9789460917516 9786613709622 661370962X 1280799234 9781280799235 |