Schoolcraft vs. Becoming Somebody: Competing Visions of Higher Education among Working-Class College Students
By exploring the meanings working-class students attribute to college and academic success, this article uncovers important and surprising disjunctures between the official view of college as a pathway to social mobility and students’ own needs and aspirations. While some working-class college stude...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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State Library & Aalborg University
2010-10-01
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Series: | Qualitative Studies |
Online Access: | http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/qual/article/view/3826 |