Becoming to Remain: Community College Students and Post-Secondary Pursuits in Central Appalachia

Autor/in	Wright, Christina J.
Titel	Becoming to Remain: Community College Students and Post-Secondary Pursuits in Central Appalachia
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 27 (2012) 6, (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Technical Institutes; Educational Attainment; Quality of Life; Rural Areas; Rural Education; Community Colleges; Career Choice; Place of Residence; Academic Degrees; Migration Patterns; Kentucky + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Technische Fakultät; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Lebensqualität; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Community college; Community College; Wohnort; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss
Abstract	Using data gathered from students attending Southeast Community and Technical College in Harlan County, Kentucky, this article discusses how a commitment to place informs and shapes rural students' decisions around post-secondary education, career, and residence. Though some students connected advanced education with rural outmigration, other students discussed their post-secondary training in relation to local contexts, connecting their education to improved quality of life, both for their families and their rural communities. Their narratives regarding the purpose and application of higher education in Central Appalachia add to the continuing discussion of rural students' rationales to stay or leave their home communities, and by what means they achieve these ends. While some students applied their advanced degrees towards transfer out of the area, others used their degrees towards local transformative ends. By highlighting Labaree's (1997) conception of the citizenry ends of education, this study complicates Corbett (2007) and other studies that attach advanced degree attainment with rural outmigration. (Contains 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10