Potholes in the road : transition problems for low-income youth in high school /
"As education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the 'American Dream,' Martín Sánchez-Jankowski utilizes extensive participant observation to examine how low-income students navigate the education system. With compassion and rigor, Potholes in the Road explores th...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "As education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the 'American Dream,' Martín Sánchez-Jankowski utilizes extensive participant observation to examine how low-income students navigate the education system. With compassion and rigor, Potholes in the Road explores the dynamics of the multiple interrelated obstacles that low-income students must surpass in order to make educational transitions successfully from high school to college. Using extensive ethnographic research, Sánchez-Jankowski explores the mythic pull of the 'American Dream' and how obstacles of social capital, wealth, and culture make achieving such a dream through education nearly impossible"-- Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2022). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520387120 9780520387126 |
| Author Notes: | Martín Sánchez-Jankowski is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Ethnographic Research at the University of California, Berkeley. |