Higher Education and First-Generation Students [electronic resource] : Cultivating Community, Voice, and Place for the New Majority /
Jehangir, R.author.
Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them.
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