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Ensuring the Success of Latino Males in Higher Education - A National Imperative (Hardcover)
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Ensuring the Success of Latino Males in Higher Education - A National Imperative (Hardcover)
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Latino males are effectively vanishing from the American higher
education pipeline. Even as the number of Latinas/os attending
college has actually increased steadily over the last few decades,
the proportional representation of Latino males continues to slide
relative to their Latina female counterparts. The question of why
Latino males are losing ground in accessing higher
education-relative to their peers-is an important and complex one,
and it lies at the heart of this book. There are several broad
themes highlighted, catalogued along with the four dimensions of
policy, theory, research, and practice. The contributors to this
book present new research on factors that inhibit or promote Latino
success in both four-year institutions and community colleges in
order to inform both policy and practice. They explore the
social-cultural factors, peer dynamics, and labour force demands
that may be perpetuating the growing gender gap, and consider what
lessons can be learned from research on the success of Latinas.
This book also closely examines key practices that enable first
generation Latino male undergraduates to succeed which may seem
counterintuitive to institutional expectations and preconceived
notions of student behaviour. Using narrative data, the book also
explores the role of family in persistence; outlines how Latino men
conceptualise fulfilling expectations, negotiate the emasculisation
of the educational process, and how they confront racialisation in
the pursuit of a higher education; uncovers attitudes to
help-seeking that are detrimental to their success: and analyses
how those who succeed and progress in college apply their social
capital - whether aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic,
familial, or resistant. While uncovering the lack of awareness at
all levels of our colleges and universities about the depth and
severity of the challenges facing Latino males, this book provides
the foundation for rethinking policy; challenges leaders to
institutionalise male-focused programmes and services; and presents
data to inform needed changes in practice for outreach and
retention.
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