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From The Bx To A Ba: Latino Male Students And The Transition From High School To College, Alejandro Eduardo Carrion
From The Bx To A Ba: Latino Male Students And The Transition From High School To College, Alejandro Eduardo Carrion
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This study aims to provide a counter narrative to the deficit filled discourse surrounding Latino males by informing teachers, policymakers and researchers of the barriers and resources encountered by this population as they make the transition from high school to college. A qualitative research design was utilized for this study, which focused on 10 Latino males who mainly identified as Puerto Rican and Dominican, from the Bronx. Bourdieu's Theory of Practice, and his theoretical tools of field (structures), habitus (dispositions) and capital (social, cultural and economic), was used as the theoretical framework guiding this study. Participants shared the nuances of …
Faculty Inside A Changing University: Constructing Roles, Making Spaces, Leslie D. Gonzales
Faculty Inside A Changing University: Constructing Roles, Making Spaces, Leslie D. Gonzales
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The notion of a multiversity was stamped into the higher education literature by Clark Kerr in 1963 when he spoke about the numerous purposes tied to U.S. higher education. Kerr highlighted how the University is often pulled in many directions at once, asked to fulfill promises of the cultural, educational, national, societal, and now, of the global kind. Yet it is imperative to remember that these multiversities are not empty spaces. They are occupied and brought to life by the people who work inside them, especially the faculty, who Gregorian (2005) names as the "heart and soul, the bone marrow …