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Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin
Explores the higher educational journeys of students of immigrant origin, providing policy, practice, and research implications.
Activism, Burnout, and Community in Higher Education
This illuminating volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between college student activism and well-being, drawing on a multi-phase study that explores college students’ perspectives on how their activism impacts their well-being. Based on a study of 119 US college students, the authors share their findings through a constructivist, qualitative lens, revealing three key themes: The link between student activism and students’ identities, the non-negotiable time costs of activism and associated burnout, and the ways that students and higher education can benefit from a different way of considering university and community care. With scholarship exploring the connections between c...
Women and Leadership Development in College
As leadership educators shift from teacher- to learner-centered environments, from hierarchical to shared responsibility for learning, and from absolute to constructed ways of knowing, a desire for new inclusive and creative pedagogies is also emerging. This text includes over 40 easy-to-follow modules related to women and leadership development crafted by experienced leadership educators and practitioners. Each module includes learning objectives, detailed instructions, and ideas for adapting the module to diverse learning spaces and audiences. Here are but a few of the critical questions that are addressed in the modules:• How do we make explicit the complexities of power in leadership a...
Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin
Over 5 million college students in the United States - nearly one-in-three students currently enrolled - are of immigrant origin, meaning they are either the children of immigrant parents or guardians and/or immigrants themselves. These students accounted for almost 60% of the growth in higher education enrolment in the 21st century. Nevertheless, there is very little research dedicated to this student population's specific experiences of postsecondary education, with similar absences discernible within the realms of higher education policy and practice. Although college campuses are making important progress in building more inclusive spaces, conversations about climate and student care rarely account for the journeys of students of immigrant origin. Featuring 20 chapters written by more than 50 contributors, this book addresses this glaring omission. The authors examine how students of immigrant origin experience the road to, through, and beyond higher education, while, simultaneously, speaking to evidence-based implications for policy, research, and practice.
College Belonging
College Belonging reveals how colleges’ and universities’ efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to “get out there!” and “find your place” by joining student organizations, sports teams, clubs and the like. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works. Drawing on the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim, College Belonging shows that belonging is something that members of a community offer to each other. It is something that must be given, like a gift. Individuals cannot simply walk up to a group or community and demand belonging. That’s not how it works. The group must extend a sense of belonging to each and every member. It happens by making a person feel welcome, to feel that their presence matters to the group, that they would be missed if they were gone. This critical insight helps us understand why colleges' push for students simply to “get out there!” does not always work.
The Cost of Inclusion
Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what really happens when students arrive on campus and enter this new social world? The Cost of Inclusion delves into this rich moment to explore the ways students seek out a sense of belonging and the sacrifices they make to fit in. Blake R. Silver spent a year immersed in student life at a large public university. He trained with the Cardio Club, hung out with the Learning Community, and hosted service eve...
First Generation Students an deutschen Hochschulen
Die im Jahr 2008 gegründete Initiative www.ArbeiterKind.de hat innerhalb kürzester Zeit breiten Zulauf und bundesweite Bekanntheit erlangt. Ihr Ziel ist es, »Arbeiterkinder« – genauer: First Generation Students, also Studierende der ersten Generation, die nicht aus Akademikerfamilien stammen – an der Hochschule anzusprechen und in ihrem Studienverlauf zu unterstützen. Damit stößt sie in eine offensichtliche Lücke im deutschen Hochschulsystem, die bisher institutionell nicht abgedeckt wird. Was genau macht diese Initiative? Warum war sie so erfolgreich? Erreicht sie wirklich die anvisierte Studierendengruppe? Worin bestehen die spezifischen Probleme der First Generation Students, über welche Kompetenzen verfügen sie und welche Perspektiven verbinden sie mit der Hochschule? Was motiviert Menschen, sich ehrenamtlich in dieser Initiative zu engagierten? Solchen Fragen geht dieser Band auf Basis einer repräsentativen Online-Befragung der Mitglieder von www.ArbeiterKind.de sowie Gruppendiskussionen an verschiedenen regionalen Standorten der Initiative nach. Die Studie stellt die bisher umfassendste Untersuchung zu First Generation Students an deutschen Hochschulen dar.
The Cambridge Handbook of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
In this handbook, the world's leading researchers answer fundamental questions about dyslexia and dyscalculia based on authoritative reviews of the scientific literature. It provides an overview from the basic science foundations to best practice in schooling and educational policy, covering research topics ranging from genes, environments, and cognition to prevention, intervention and educational practice. With clear explanations of scientific concepts, research methods, statistical models and technical terms within a cross-cultural perspective, this book will be a go-to reference for researchers, instructors, students, policymakers, educators, teachers, therapists, psychologists, physicians and those affected by learning difficulties.
Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century
This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school ...
