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Allison L. Hurst
Mobility Studies and Education, Sense Publishers, 2012
Mobility Studies and Education, Sense Publishers, 2012
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Hurst, A. L. (2012). College and the Working Class: What it Takes to Make It. Sense Publishers.
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Hurst, Allison L. College and the Working Class: What It Takes to Make It. Mobility Studies and Education. Sense Publishers, 2012.
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Hurst, Allison L. College and the Working Class: What It Takes to Make It. Sense Publishers, 2012.
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@book{allison2012a,
title = {College and the Working Class: What it Takes to Make It},
year = {2012},
publisher = {Sense Publishers},
series = {Mobility Studies and Education},
author = {Hurst, Allison L.}
}
What are the meanings, experiences, and impact of college for working-class people? The author of this book addresses the two questions, what is college like for working-class students, and what is college for the working class? Hurst draws on a wealth of previous research to tell the stories of five very different working-class college students as they apply to, enter, successfully navigate, and complete college. Through these stories readers will learn about the obstacles working-class students face and overcome, the costs and effectiveness of higher education as a mechanism of social mobility, and the problems caused on our college campuses by our reticence to meaningfully confront the class divide. Readers will be invited to compare their own experiences of higher education with those of the students here described, and to evaluate their own institutions’ openness towards working-class students through a series of checklists provided in the book’s conclusion.
