Community colleges and first-generation students : academic discourse in the writing classroom

✍ Scribed by Osborn, Jan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 200
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"Community Colleges and First-Generation Students examines how first-generation students from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are initiated into what is known as academic discourse, particularly at the community college. Osborn systematically looks at specific classroom discourses through detailed evidence provided by the diversities represented by the students, and how the students negotiated their Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Intersecting Place, Purpose, and Practice: A Community College Context....Pages 1-5
Identities: A Context of Multiplicity....Pages 7-12
Linguistic Ideologies....Pages 13-29
Institutionalized Identities....Pages 31-51
Classroom Discourse....Pages 53-76
Student Voices....Pages 77-127
Homogenizing Identities....Pages 129-168
A Call to Action: What We Say and What We Do....Pages 169-173
Back Matter....Pages 175-200

✦ Subjects

Community colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects;First-generation college students -- United States;Minority college students -- United States;Community college students -- United States;Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States;Critical discourse analysis;Community college students;Community colleges -- Sociological aspects;Education, Higher -- Social aspects;First-generation college students;Minority college students;United States

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