Higher education and first-generation students : cultivating community, voice, and place for the new majority / Rashné Rustom Jehangir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jehangir, Rashné Rustom, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First-generation college students--United States.

First-generation college students.

People with social disabilities--Education (Higher)--United States.

People with social disabilities.

People with social disabilities--Education (Higher).

United States.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Contents:

A long way from home: deeping our understanding of first-generation students

Strangers without codebooks: isolation and marginalization

Re-imagining the university: theoretical approaches to serving first-generation college students

Toward community, connectedness, and care

Rationale and design for the multicultural learning community

Belonging and finding place

Claiming self: identity and academic voice

On critiques and possibilities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230623446

0230623441

OCLC:

601137892