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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Higher Education and First-Generation Students: Cultivating Community, Voice, and Place for the New Majority

The Wabash Center

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Author
Jehangir, Rashne Rustom
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan, New York
ISBN
9780230623446
Book Review Link
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12031/abstract
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I Getting There: First-Generation Students and the Road to College
ch. 1 A Long Way from Home: Deepening Our Understanding of First-Generation Students
ch. 2 Strangers without Codebooks: Isolation and Marginalization

Part II Being Here: Surviving the Transition to College
ch. 3 Reimagining the University: Theoretical Approaches to Serving First-Generation College Students
ch. 4 Toward Community, Connectedness, and Care

Part III Getting Through: Lessons from First-Generation Students
ch. 5 Rationale and Design for the Multicultural Learning Community
ch. 6 Belonging and Finding Place
ch. 7 Claiming Self: Identity and Academic Voice
ch. 8 On Critiques and Possibilities

References
Index
Higher Education and First-Generation Students offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book contends that first-generation students are isolated and marginalized on many large college campuses and considers learning communities and critical multicultural pedagogies as vehicles to cultivate community, voice, and place for this new majority of students. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them. What can we learn from these students? How might their insights inform and shape the learning spaces we create for them? (From the Publisher)