Higher Education and First-Generation Students

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 1-10

3. Getting There

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. A Long Way from Home

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 13-28

   3. Strangers without Codebooks

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 29-43

4. Being Here

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Reimagining the University

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 47-72

   3. Toward Community, Connectedness, and Care

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 73-91

5. Getting Through

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Rationale and Design for the Multicultural Learning Community

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 95-118

   3. Belonging and Finding Place

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 119-138

   4. Claiming Self

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 139-165

   5. On Critiques and Possibilities

      • Rashné Rustom Jehangir

      Pages 167-186

6. Back Matter

   Pages 187-212

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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.

• education
• higher education
• learning
• research
• university
• structural geology

"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 of California, Irvine

"Jehangir deftly weaves commentary about what it means to conceive of education as a public good. At the center of the book are students' voices, providing timely and compelling descriptions of effective pedagogical practice. Their questions - raised several years after their learning community experiences - point to needed improvement in colleges. Jehangir's conclusions provide clear approaches for campus teams to make their institutions work better for first generation, low-income students."- Emily Lardner, Co-Director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College

"Perhaps the most helpful aspect of Jehangir's book is her call for changing the way we help students learn . . . Jehangir's model . . . may benefit a a large number of students who enter twenty-first century North American classrooms." - Teaching Theology and Religion

Rashné R. Jehangir is Associate Professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.

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