Working-Class Student in Higher Education - Addressing a Class-Based Understanding

This book presents a qualitative investigation of community college faculty members' perceptions of working-class students, focusing on their inability to acknowledge, discuss, and consider the influence of class within the experience of higher education.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Framing a "Working-Class" Definition
Chapter 2: Framing a Working-Class Experience in Education
Chapter 3: Working-Class Students as Understood by Faculty
Chapter 4: Working-Class Students as (mis)Understood by Faculty
Chapter 5: Lost in Translation
Chapter 6: Going Forth
References
About the Author

About the author

By Terina Roberson Lathe

Summary

This book presents a qualitative investigation of community college faculty members’ perceptions of working-class students, focusing on their inability to acknowledge, discuss, and consider the influence of class within the experience of higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Terina Roberson Lathe
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781498537292
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3729-2
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Social Class in Education; Social Class in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, Social discrimination & inequality, Social classes, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, Social discrimination and social justice