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Higher education and first-generation students [electronic resource] : cultivating community, voice, and place for the new majority /

by Jehangir, Rashn�e Rustom; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 212 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): First-generation college students -- United States | People with social disabilities -- Education (Higher) -- United States | Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States | Multiculturalism -- United States | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
A long way from home: deeping our understanding of first-generation students -- Strangers without codebooks: isolation and marginalization -- Re-imagining with university : theoretical approaches to serving first-generation college students -- Toward community, connectedness, and care -- Rationale and design for the multicultural learning community -- Belonging and finding place -- Claiming self : identity and academic voice -- On critiques and possibilities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A long way from home: deeping our understanding of first-generation students -- Strangers without codebooks: isolation and marginalization -- Re-imagining with university : theoretical approaches to serving first-generation college students -- Toward community, connectedness, and care -- Rationale and design for the multicultural learning community -- Belonging and finding place -- Claiming self : identity and academic voice -- On critiques and possibilities.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.


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