College Aspirations and Access in Working-class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-generation Students Encounter

Ardoin, Sonja

ISBN 10: 1498536883 / ISBN 13: 9781498536882

Published by Lexington Books, 2019

About this Item

1st edition. 125 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: College Aspirations and Access in Working-class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-generation Students Encounter
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498536883
• ISBN 13: 9781498536882
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.25 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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