Working-class minority students' routes to higher education / / Roberta Espinoza
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| Autore: |
Espinoza Roberta
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| Titolo: |
Working-class minority students' routes to higher education / / Roberta Espinoza
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (163 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 378.1/9820973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Minorities - Education (Higher) - United States |
| Working class - Education (Higher) - United States | |
| Universities and colleges - United States - Admission | |
| Educational equalization - United States | |
| Classificazione: | EDU000000EDU040000EDU015000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Foundation: Educational Social and Cultural Capital; 3 Pivotal Moments that Produce Habitus Change; 4 Educational Outcomes of a Hybrid Working-/Middle-Class Habitus; 5 The Transformative Power of Educators; 6 Educator-Student Relationships that Shape College Aspirations and Academic Success; 7 Conclusion; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital - examines the social relations that often underpin such successes, highlighting the significant formal and informal academic interventions by educators and other education professionals"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Working-class minority students' routes to higher education |
| ISBN: | 1-136-25506-0 |
| 1-283-64280-8 | |
| 0-203-10576-1 | |
| 1-136-25507-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970830303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge Research in Education