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

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

• | Author: Kerry H. Landers
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 257 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 3319634550
• | ISBN-13: 9783319634555