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The Mexican American community college experience : fostering resilience, achieving success /
The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge of educating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Brief Overview; Stories and Examples; Qualitative Research as a Journey; Gardens of Possibility; Background and Purpose; Why Do Latinos Choose Community Colleges?; My Journey; The First-Year Experience; Drama in the Garden; Honored but Invisible; 1 Resilience and Personal Protective Factors; Mattie: A Model of Resilience; The Resilience Framework; Personal Protective Factors; 2 Environmental Protective Factors and Teacher Qualities; Family as an Environmental Protective Factor; School as an Environmental Protective Factor.
- Community as an Environmental Protective FactorPedagogies of Survival; Teacher Qualities; 3 Teaching con Respeto; Social Competency through Meaningful Relationships; Faculty Teaching con Respeto; 4 Validation; The First-Year Experience Course; Validation through Learning Communities; Validation in Action; 5 Cultivating a Larger Purpose; Family and the Larger Purpose; Community Uplift; The Puente Project; 6 Building Social and Cultural Capital; "Playing the Game"; Weaving Social Webs; Balancing Respeto and Ambition; Learning Communities; Getting Ready to Meet the World; Conclusion; Appendix.
- The Importance of ContextThe Dynamics of Power, Knowledge, and Relationships; Using a Critical Resilience Lens; Methods; References; About the Author.