College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality write by Elizabeth M. Lee. This book was released on 2015-03-27. College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As scholars and administrators have sharpened their focus on higher education beyond trends in access and graduation rates for underrepresented college students, there are growing calls for understanding the experiential dimensions of college life. This contributed book explores what actually happens on campus as students from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds enroll and share space. Chapter authors investigate how students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, and racial/ethnic groups navigate academic institutions alongside each other. Rather than treat diversity as mere difference, this volume provides dynamic analyses of how students come to experience both power and marginality in their campus lives. Each chapter comprises an empirical qualitative study from scholars engaged in cutting-edge research about campus life. This exciting book provides administrators and faculty new ways to think about students’ vulnerabilities and strengths.
College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality
College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality write by Elizabeth M. Lee. This book was released on 2015-03-27. College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As scholars and administrators have sharpened their focus on higher education beyond trends in access and graduation rates for underrepresented college students, there are growing calls for understanding the experiential dimensions of college life. This contributed book explores what actually happens on campus as students from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds enroll and share space. Chapter authors investigate how students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, and racial/ethnic groups navigate academic institutions alongside each other. Rather than treat diversity as mere difference, this volume provides dynamic analyses of how students come to experience both power and marginality in their campus lives. Each chapter comprises an empirical qualitative study from scholars engaged in cutting-edge research about campus life. This exciting book provides administrators and faculty new ways to think about students’ vulnerabilities and strengths.
Class and Campus Life
Class and Campus Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class and Campus Life write by Elizabeth M. Lee. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Class and Campus Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite campuses." What happens to academically talented but economically challenged "first-gen" students when they arrive on campus? Class markers aren't always visible from a distance, but socioeconomic differences permeate campus life—and the inner experiences of students—in real and sometimes unexpected ways. In Class and Campus Life, Elizabeth M. Lee shows how class differences are enacted and negotiated by students, faculty, and administrators at an elite liberal arts college for women located in the Northeast. Using material from two years of fieldwork and more than 140 interviews with students, faculty, administrators, and alumnae at the pseudonymous Linden College, Lee adds depth to our understanding of inequality in higher education. An essential part of her analysis is to illuminate the ways in which the students' and the college’s practices interact, rather than evaluating them separately, as seemingly unrelated spheres. She also analyzes underlying moral judgments brought to light through cultural connotations of merit, hard work by individuals, and making it on your own that permeate American higher education. Using students’ own descriptions and understandings of their experiences to illustrate the complexity of these issues, Lee shows how the lived experience of socioeconomic difference is often defined in moral, as well as economic, terms, and that tensions, often unspoken, undermine students’ senses of belonging.
First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities
First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities write by Teresa Heinz Housel. This book was released on 2018. First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intersections of Marginality for First-Generation College Students examines the intersecting relationships between a student's identity as a first-generation college student (FGCS) and other identities such as race, class, LGBTQ+, and spiritual identity, among others.
"Nobody Truly Understands"
"Nobody Truly Understands" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Nobody Truly Understands" write by Audrey Katherine Scranton. This book was released on 2019. "Nobody Truly Understands" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First generation college students, defined as students whose parents did not attend or complete education after high school, currently make up about one in three college undergraduates. First generation students often face difficulties adapting to the college environment and find their identities challenged in efforts to find success. Much research about first generation students positions students as having "risk factors" due to their backgrounds rather than the institution as inadequate to meet their needs. In order to explore how a four-year institution was and was not meeting the needs of some first generation students, I conducted an analysis of White and Latinx-identifying students' experience of mattering and marginality using Critical Discourse Analysis as my method. The purpose of this study is to understand how first generation student represent their sense of belonging through language use. Based on qualitative analyses of focus group comments, students described mattering and marginality as occurring within multiple areas of the college experience. Throughout these areas, or "spheres," participants described the roles of interpersonal and institutional communication that positioned them to feel a sense of belonging or marginality. Students reported experiencing marginality because of 1) issues of money, 2) not knowing things they might be expected to know, and 3) others not understanding their experiences and identities. Students experienced mattering with 1) community and 2) administrators. They also described feeling mattering and marginality simultaneously in some situations. Furthermore, students experienced campus differently based on their racial and ethnoracial identities. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed to better serve the needs of first generation students.
