| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Brief Overview; Stories and Examples; Qualitative Research as a Journey; Gardens of Possibility; Background and Purpose; Why Do Latinos Choose Community Colleges?; My Journey; The First-Year Experience; Drama in the Garden; Honored but Invisible; 1 Resilience and Personal Protective Factors; Mattie: A Model of Resilience; The Resilience Framework; Personal Protective Factors; 2 Environmental Protective Factors and Teacher Qualities; Family as an Environmental Protective Factor; School as an Environmental Protective Factor. |
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Community as an Environmental Protective FactorPedagogies of Survival; Teacher Qualities; 3 Teaching con Respeto; Social Competency through Meaningful Relationships; Faculty Teaching con Respeto; 4 Validation; The First-Year Experience Course; Validation through Learning Communities; Validation in Action; 5 Cultivating a Larger Purpose; Family and the Larger Purpose; Community Uplift; The Puente Project; 6 Building Social and Cultural Capital; "Playing the Game"; Weaving Social Webs; Balancing Respeto and Ambition; Learning Communities; Getting Ready to Meet the World; Conclusion; Appendix. |
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The Importance of ContextThe Dynamics of Power, Knowledge, and Relationships; Using a Critical Resilience Lens; Methods; References; About the Author. |
| Summary |
The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge of educating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Education (Higher)
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Mexican Americans -- Education (Higher) |
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Community colleges -- United States.
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Community colleges. |
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United States. |
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. |
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Campa, Blanca, author. Mexican American community college experience Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 9781475834062 (DLC) 2016057921 |
| ISBN |
9781475834086 (epub) |
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147583408X |
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9781475834062 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9781475834079 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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