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Learning the Possible : Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being /
In this book, the author demonstrates that it is possible for underprepared high school graduates to be successful in college. It chronicles the struggles and triumphs of five Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a one-year scholarship and support program called the Col...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Learning the Possible : |b Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being / |c Reynaldo Reyes III ; with a foreword by Christian J. Faltis. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword / Christian J. Faltis -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Urgency of Incompleteness -- Coming from the Margins of School and Life : The Students -- College through CAMP: Access, Community, and Opportunity to Learn -- Key Interactions as Agency and Empowerment -- Academic Performance and Practice : Grades -- Emerging and Evolving Identities as Successful Students -- Discussion : Implications of the Possible. | |
| 520 | |a In this book, the author demonstrates that it is possible for underprepared high school graduates to be successful in college. It chronicles the struggles and triumphs of five Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a one-year scholarship and support program called the College Assistance Migrant Program. CAMP, a federally funded program, is designed to help college students from migrant and/or economically disadvantaged families complete their first year of college. CAMP's principal objective is to put students on a trajectory toward completion of a bachelor's degree. Laura, Christina, Luz, Maria, and Ruben, as the author calls them, had daunting challenges: difficulties with English, extremely low self-confidence, teenage motherhood, conflict between gender roles and personal desires, and a history of gang membership. Focusing on the importance of constructing a new identity as a successful student, the author shares with readers the experiences of these marginalized students. Their stories, coupled with perspectives from instructors, CAMP staff and counselors, and the author's own observations, illustrate the influence of past schooling, the persistence of culture, and the tensions and challenges inherent in developing a new identity. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Complete | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Global Cultural Studies | ||