Sonja Ardoin

College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities

The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter explores how a working class, rural environment influences rural students' opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice process. Based on a case study with accounts from rural high school students and counselors, this book examines how these communities perceive higher education and what challenges arise for both rural students and counselors. The book addresses how college knowledge and university jargon illustrate the gap between rural cultural capital and higher education cultural capital. Insights about approaches to reduce barriers created by college knowledge and university jargon are shared and strategies for offering rural students pathways to learn academic language and navigate higher education are presented for both secondary and higher education institutions.

Produktdetails

• Social Class in Education
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9781498536868
• ISBN-10: 1498536867
• Artikelnr.: 49559662

Autorenporträt

Sonja Ardoin is program director and clinical assistant professor of higher education at Boston University. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Author's Note Introduction. Rural
Research Reasoning Chapter 1. Rural Representation Chapter 2. The College
Access Gap for Rural Students Chapter 3. Putting the Pieces Together:
Connections between a College Choice Model, Cultural Capital, and College
Access, Knowledge, and Jargon Chapter 4. "More Trouble Than It's Worth or
Path to a 'Better Life'?": Rural Attitudes About College Chapter 5. "I Know
What B.S. Means, Just Not In Those Terms": Rural Students' Encounters With
College Knowledge Chapter 6. "I Have More to Do Than I Can Possibly Do
Well": Rural Counselors' Challenges with College Counseling Chapter 7.
Aspirations and Access Assignments For Everyone In Education: Strategies
For Rural, Public High Schools, Rural Communities, Higher Education, And
Policymakers References Appendices A. USDA ERS Nonmetropolitan Map B. USDA
ERS Changing Metro Status Map C. USDA ERS Rural Areas Map D. 2015 U.S.
Census Data on MapDot E. USDA ERS Low Education Counties Map F. USDA ERS
Persistent Poverty Counties Map G. College and University Jargon List About
the Author