Issues of Class and Culture in Today's Community Colleges.

Autor/in	Rendon, Laura I.
Institution	National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, University Park, PA.
Titel	Issues of Class and Culture in Today's Community Colleges.
Quelle	(1995), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Stellungnahme; Community Colleges; Cultural Context; Diversity (Institutional); Educational Change; Educational Research; Educational Responsibility; Equal Education; Minority Group Influences; Multicultural Education; Role of Education; Social Bias; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Bildungsreform; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Erziehungsverantwortung; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	New researchers on community colleges, such as Rob Rhoads, Estela Bensimon, Bill Tierney, James Valadez, Berta Laden, and Romero Jalomo, are exploring new conceptual frameworks to guide thinking about the transformation of community colleges from mere open-access institutions into colleges that make a difference in the lives of students who have nowhere else to turn. Although current policies and practices are very entrenched, this research might come to influence the next generation of college leaders. Rhoads presents the notion of multiculturalism as a conceptual framework by which to restructure the colleges, positing border knowledge, or that which resides outside of the canon, as a legitimate form of knowledge which should be recognized and rewarded. Valadez finds that the community college is organized to meet the needs of community employers as opposed to the needs of students, while Jalomo and Laden examine the experiences of Latino students and the effects on their learning and persistence. This new research points to a conflict between institutional survival and what is in the hearts and minds of students. Ultimately, if colleges merely offer the opportunity to learn vocational skills, they fail to fulfill the real promise of the community college: that even students from non-academic backgrounds can attain an education that goes beyond performing menial tasks and obeying authority. (BCY)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01