Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice by Landers, Kerry H.

Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319634555)

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Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice by Landers, Kerry H.

Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice

$119.99
Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice by Landers, Kerry H.

Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice

$119.99
Format: Hardcover
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Explores what is it like for low-income students to feel the need to "pass" in their new college environments where the majority of their peers enjoy a high level of economic, social, and cultural capital

Presents ethnographic data to show disparities between low-income students and their privileged peers

Examines challenges low-income students face academically and personally as they navigate the foreign elite college culture



Author: Kerry H. Landers
ISBN-10: 3319634550
ISBN-13: 9783319634555
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2017
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d
By Kerry H. Landers
By Kerry H. Landers
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Kerry H. Landers is Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs in the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and Visiting Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, USA.

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