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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817851403321

Autore

Ruecker Todd Christopher

Titolo

Transiciones : Pathways of latinas and latinos writing in high school and college  / / Todd Ruecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado  : , : Utah State University, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-87421-976-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042071

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Spanish speakers

English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Spanish speakers

Language arts - Remedial teaching

First-generation college students - United States

Hispanic Americans - Education (Higher)

Hispanic Americans - Education (Secondary)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. College Decisions and Institutional Disparities; 3. Struggling Transitions; 4. Difficult but Successful Transitions; 5. Smooth Transitions; 6. An Unpredictable Transition; 7. Contextualizing Transitions to College; 8. The Role of Composition Researchers, Teachers, and Administrators; Epilogue and Final Thoughts; Appendix A: Student Surveys and Interview Protocols; Appendix B: Teacher and Administrator Interview Protocols; References; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions reveal a rich picture of the conflicted experience of these students as they attempted to balance the demands of schooling with a variety of personal responsibilities.Todd Ruecker explores the disconnect between students' writing experiences



in high school and higher education and examines