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Pivotal Moments
Roberto Espinoza
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Description for Pivotal Moments
Paperback. For low-income minority students, overcoming barriers to higher education often requires an academic mentor. This book shares real-life stories of educators who helped struggling students make it into college and sustain their success. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 456.
For many students, making their way to higher education requires more than hard work and determination. Low-income minority students who overcome obstacles to achieve academic success have usually encountered at least one college-educated adult in their schooling who took the initiative to reach out to them and provide concrete academic guidance.
In this book, sociologist Roberta Espinoza introduces the idea of “pivotal moments”—interventions that point the way toward college, particularly for students from working-class or ethnic minority backgrounds. These pivotal encounters and the relationships that spring from them can help students accumulate procedural knowledge about attending college (cultural capital) ... Read more
For many students, making their way to higher education requires more than hard work and determination. Low-income minority students who overcome obstacles to achieve academic success have usually encountered at least one college-educated adult in their schooling who took the initiative to reach out to them and provide concrete academic guidance.
In this book, sociologist Roberta Espinoza introduces the idea of “pivotal moments”—interventions that point the way toward college, particularly for students from working-class or ethnic minority backgrounds. These pivotal encounters and the relationships that spring from them can help students accumulate procedural knowledge about attending college (cultural capital) ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612501192
SKU
V9781612501192
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Ref
99-2
About Roberto Espinoza
Roberta Espinoza is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton. Kathleen Cushman has documented the learning of adolescents in and out of school since 1989. A co-founder of What Kids Can Do, she gathered youth voices in WKCD's books about school culture and climate (the Fires in the Bathroom series), student motivation and mastery ... Read more
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