Trajectories : : the social and educational mobility of education scholars from poor and working class backgrounds / / Jane A. Van Galen and Van O. Dempsey.

Trajectories: The Educational and Social Mobility of Educators from the Poor and Working Class, is a collection of mobility narratives of critical scholars in education from poor and working-class backgrounds. While Americans have long held deep-seated cultural beliefs in the capacity of schooling t...

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Superior document:Mobility studies and education
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Taipei : Sense Publishers : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Mobility studies and education.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Jane A. van Galen and Van O. Dempsey
  • Trajectories / Jane A. Van Galen and Van Dempsey
  • Jagged Edges / Stephanie Jones
  • From Compton to the Halls of Academia / Juan F. Carrillo
  • Homeless to Harvard: Etcetera, Etcetera / Daryl Parks
  • Curbside Pick-Up: Learning the Importance of Education and Social Mobility Through the Scraps of Others / Anna Lea Todd
  • Blue Collar / Ann M. Foster
  • Sometimes You Gotta Live Your Life on a Bridge: The Educational Narrative of a Multicultural Scholar / Paula Groves Price
  • The Stings of Social Hierarchies / Linda Prieto
  • Crossing Boundaries / Ken Jones
  • Manoeuvreings / Karen Spector
  • Standing and Running / George W. Noblit
  • Marking the Body / Timothy J. Lensmire
  • Interrogating Class and Nationality as Markers in Biography Building / William T. Pink
  • Mothering, Cultural Capital, and Imparting Power / Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin
  • Changing Fields / Leslie D. Hall
  • Days of Learning Socio-Political Practices: A Working Class Chicana Educational Trajectory / Melissa Moreno
  • Going Where There Is No Path / Claudia L. Aman
  • I Think Ph.D. Stands for Poor, Hungry and Determined / Kristal T. Moore
  • Restless / Jane A. Van Galen
  • “Cotton, Cucumbers, and Carolina” / Van Dempsey
  • Another Romance with Schools / Nick Michelli
  • Climbing Down Class from the “Top of My Life” / Sherick A. Hughes
  • Both Sides of the Tracks / Jaci Webb-Dempsey
  • “Racializing” Class / Beth Hatt and Luis Urrieta.