Making Sparks Fly: How occupational education can lead to a love of learning for its own sake.
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| Title: | Making Sparks Fly: How occupational education can lead to a love of learning for its own sake. |
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| Authors: | Rose, Mike1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | American Scholar. Summer2011, Vol. 80 Issue 3, p35-42. 8p. 1 Color Photograph. |
| Subject Terms: | *Low-income students, *Academic achievement, *Academic motivation, *College students |
| Geographic Terms: | California |
| Company/Entity: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Abstract: | The author, a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), discusses his involvement with a research team attempting to understand what enables or prevents academic achievement among low-income students in colleges and universities. The author observes a college program for students with lower academic skills to look at what motivates lower-income students to balance jobs and education, child-care arrangements, and transportation needs in order to attain a college education. According to the author, upward economic mobility is a factor in motivation, though literacy attainment, vocational training, and self-image also play large motivating roles. The author also states that dropout rates are due more to cost of living expenses, not mainly academics. |
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| Abstract: | The author, a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), discusses his involvement with a research team attempting to understand what enables or prevents academic achievement among low-income students in colleges and universities. The author observes a college program for students with lower academic skills to look at what motivates lower-income students to balance jobs and education, child-care arrangements, and transportation needs in order to attain a college education. According to the author, upward economic mobility is a factor in motivation, though literacy attainment, vocational training, and self-image also play large motivating roles. The author also states that dropout rates are due more to cost of living expenses, not mainly academics. |
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| ISSN: | 00030937 |
