Potholes in the Road : Transition Problems for Low-Income Youth in High School
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| Title: | Potholes in the Road : Transition Problems for Low-Income Youth in High School |
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| Description: | Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging. |
| Authors: | Martin Sanchez-Jankowski |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Low-income high school students--United States--Case studies |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520387102 9780520387119 9780520387126 |
