Description
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. Rashn R. Jehangir is Associate Professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. PART I: GETTING THERE: FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS AND THE ROAD TO COLLEGE A Long Way from Home: Deeping our Understanding of First-Generation Students Strangers without Codebooks: Isolation and Marginalization PART II: BEING HERE: SURVIVING THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE Re-Imagining with University: Theoretical Approaches to Serving First-Generation College Students Toward Community, Connectedness, and Care PART III: GETTING THROUGH: LESSONS FROM FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS Rationale and Design for the Multicultural Learning Community Belonging and Finding Place Claiming Self: Identity and Academic Voice On Critiques and Possibilities
