Overview
- 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
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About this book
This book examines how previously excluded high-achieving, low-income students are faring socially and academically at an Ivy League college in New England. In the past, research conducted on low-income students in elite schools focused mainly on the admissions process. As a result, there is a dearth of research on what happens to low-income students once they are admitted and attend classes. This book chronicles an ethnographic study of twenty low-income men and women in their senior year at Dartmouth College and follows up with them four and twelve years post-graduation. By helping to bring visibility and self-awareness to low-income students and expose class issues and struggles, the author hopes to encourage elite institutions to change their policies and practices to address the needs of these students.
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“This book presents an engaging, wide-ranging discussion of the importance, function, and implications of class difference among students in America’s elite institutions. Told with grace, humor, generosity, and insight, these stories will interest not only those of us who have emerged from working class backgrounds but those who are mystified by how folks without financial and cultural privileges rise to attain them. Landers fills the gap in recent books on class by bringing absolutely contemporary perspectives to this ever-changing, always-important topic.” (Gina Barreca, author of Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League
Book Subtitle: Navigating Policy and Practice
Authors: Kerry H. Landers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63456-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63455-5Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87561-3Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63456-2Published: 03 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 257
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Ethnicity in Education