Community Colleges as Cultural Texts

Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture

AvKathleen M. Shaw,James R. Valadez

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Questions whether, and how, community colleges confront the challenges of diversity and provide real opportunities for upward mobility.Community colleges are positioned to play a critical role in the process of upward mobility in American society. Yet despite the "open door" accessibility of these institutions, the question remains as to whether or not community colleges enhance the social mobility of working class and minority students.The contradictory and often paradoxical nature of research on community colleges suggests that making generalizations about the sector as a whole is perhaps misguided. This book takes an important step toward developing a more nuanced understanding of the rich and varied cultures inherent in community colleges. The contributors approach this task by examining community colleges as "cultural texts," using critical qualitative frameworks to address the question of whether, and how, community colleges confront the challenges of diversity and provide real opportunities for upward mobility.[Contributors include Marilyn Amey, Eusebio Diaz, Stanford T. Goto, Berta Vigil Laden, Dennis McGrath, Laura I. Rendón, Robert A. Rhoads, Kathleen M. Shaw, Armando Trujillo, James R. Valadez, and Bill Van Buskirk.]

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-09-02
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Frontiers in Education
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791442890

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Kathleen M. Shaw is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Temple University. James R. Valadez is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington and the coauthor, with Robert A. Rhoads, of Democracy, Multiculturalism and the Community College: A Critical Perspective. Robert A. Rhoads is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State University and the author of Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self, also published by SUNY Press.

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"A well-written and integrated collection, this volume presents the strongest and most cogent argument for the importance of the development of social, cultural, and emotional capital among community college students that I have read. Researchers, commentators, policymakers, administrators, staff, and faculty concerned with community colleges and their students will find this newer dynamic-interactionist view to be a challenge to the static-structural view they are likely to hold." — Mark Oromaner, Hudson County Community College

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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Chapter 1Community Colleges as Cultural Texts: A Conceptual OverviewKathleen M. Shaw, Robert A. Rhoads, and James R. Valadez Chapter 2Cultures of Support for At-Risk Students: The Role of Social and Emotional Capital in the Educational Experiences of WomenDennis McGrath and William Van Buskirk Chapter 3The Struggle for Mobility in the Contact Zone of Basic WritingStanford T. Goto Chapter 4Navigating the Raging River: Reconciling Issues of Identity, Inclusion, and Administrative PracticeMarilyn J. Amey Chapter 5Preparing for Work in a Post-Industrial World: Resistance and Compliance to the Ideological Messages of a Community CollegeJames R. Valadez Chapter 6The Politics of Culture and Identity: Contrasting Images of Multiculturalism and MonoculturalismRobert A. Rhoads Chapter 7"Be a Name, Not a Number": The Role of Cultural and Social Capital in the Transfer ProcessArmando Trujillo and Eusebio Diaz Chapter 8Defining the Self: Constructions of Identity in Community College StudentsKathleen M. Shaw Chapter 9Celebratory Socialization of Culturally Diverse Students Through Academic Programs and Support ServicesBerta Vigil Laden Chapter 10Toward a New Vision of the Multicultural Community College for the Next CenturyLaura I. Rendón Contributors Index Suny series, Frontiers in Education