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Higher Education and First-Generation Students
Rashné Rustom Jehangir
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Description for Higher Education and First-Generation Students
Paperback. Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM; PGC; RBGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them.
Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349384730
SKU
V9781349384730
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99-15
About Rashné Rustom Jehangir
Rashné R. Jehangir is Associate Professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.
Reviews for Higher Education and First-Generation Students
"This is a brilliant, engaging, and well-written book on first-generation, mostly low-income college students, which offers creative suggestions regarding how to reorganize the academy to include learning communities, partnerships between academic divisions and student services, multicultural competence training, and creative pedagogy to make the academy more welcoming and inclusive." - Joseph L. White, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry, University ... Read more