Contemporary perspectives on capital in educational contexts

The edited volume, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts, is timely in its unique and appropriate analyses of the prevailing internal and external dynamics of capital as indicative of the type of currency within institutional structures or the currency among individual stakeho...

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Other Authors Bartee, RoSusan D. (Editor), Brown, M. Christopher (writer of foreword.)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
SeriesContemporary perspectives on capital in educational contexts.
Subjects
Education > United States > Finance.
Capital > United States.
Education > Finance.
Funding of education and student finance.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616145
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-365-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Making it on the broken pieces of capital and context / M. Christopher Brown II
  • Chapter 1. Insights into different forms of capital / RoSusan D. Bartee and M. Christopher Brown II
  • Part I. Educational context and the consumer aspects of capital
  • Chapter 2. Legal information as a source of social capital: The need for broad and sustained engagement in school policy affairs / Mario S. Torres
  • Chapter 3. A pedagogy of self-development: Making room for alternative forms of capital / Carlos A. McCray and Floyd R. Beachum
  • Chapter 4. Segmentation, capital, and community college transfer students: Exploring community colleges as agents of currency / Eboni Zamani-Gallagher, Stanley Bazile, and Tamara N. Stevenson
  • Part II. Educational context and the producer aspects of capital
  • Chapter 5. Capital gains and losses: The roles of political, social, and cultural capital in school reform and school access / Sheneka N. Williams and Robert W. Gaines
  • Chapter 6. Mathematics matters: Policies and practices that impact access to and outcomes in the k-12 pipeline / Lecretia A. Buckley
  • Part III. Educational context and the regulator aspects of capital
  • Chapter 7. Exploring capital within college choice: High achieving, low-income African American student perceptions of selective colleges / Phillis A. George
  • Chapter 8. Bridging the gap between theory and practice: An intra-educational analysis of capital and its diverse forms for educational opportunity and attainment / Susan S. McClelland
  • Chapter 9. Capitalizing through learning: Forms of capital that affect graduate school admissions and achievement / Saran Donahoo
  • About the contributors
  • About the editor.

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