College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities - The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Social Class in Education
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	Sonja Ardoin
Dimensions:	236 x 161 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-3686-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	1-4985-3686-7
Barcode:	9781498536868

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