Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice

By Kerry H Landers

Book Overview

Explores what is it like for low-income students to feel the need to "pass" in their new college environments where the majority of their peers enjoy a high level of economic, social, and cultural capital

Presents ethnographic data to show disparities between low-income students and their privileged peers

Examines challenges low-income students face academically and personally as they navigate the foreign elite college culture

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319634550
• ISBN13: 9783319634555
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"