Search results for: Student characteristics

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Expectations and Experiences: The Voice of A First-Generation First-Year College Student and the Question of Student Persistence
Authors: Stieha Vicki
This case study takes a phenomenological approach using the voice centered analysis. This case study analyzes qualitative interview data so that the voice of this first-generation college student is brought forward. In combination with other research calling for an expansion of the dominant theory of persistence, this research raises the importance of elevating family relationships in the student persistence model.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 13, 2010
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White Male Teachers on Difference: Narratives of Contact and Tensions
Authors: Jupp James C., Slattery Jr. Patrick
This research reflection explores a narrative pattern that emerged in participants' interviews on student differences. This reflection reveals tensions between participants' structural and deficit understandings of student differences of race, class, culture, and language. Framing participants' understandings of structural and deficit thinking, this reflection articulates three discursive contexts relating to participants' work.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 13, 2010