TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campa,Blanca
TI  - The Mexican American community college experience: fostering resilience, achieving success 
SN  - 9781475834086
AV  - LC2683.6 
U1  - 371.829/68073 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - Community colleges
KW  - United States
KW  - Collèges communautaires
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Administration
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Organizations & Institutions
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Brief Overview; Stories and Examples; Qualitative Research as a Journey; Gardens of Possibility; Background and Purpose; Why Do Latinos Choose Community Colleges?; My Journey; The First-Year Experience; Drama in the Garden; Honored but Invisible; 1 Resilience and Personal Protective Factors; Mattie: A Model of Resilience; The Resilience Framework; Personal Protective Factors; 2 Environmental Protective Factors and Teacher Qualities; Family as an Environmental Protective Factor; School as an Environmental Protective Factor; Community as an Environmental Protective FactorPedagogies of Survival; Teacher Qualities; 3 Teaching con Respeto; Social Competency through Meaningful Relationships; Faculty Teaching con Respeto; 4 Validation; The First-Year Experience Course; Validation through Learning Communities; Validation in Action; 5 Cultivating a Larger Purpose; Family and the Larger Purpose; Community Uplift; The Puente Project; 6 Building Social and Cultural Capital; "Playing the Game"; Weaving Social Webs; Balancing Respeto and Ambition; Learning Communities; Getting Ready to Meet the World; Conclusion; Appendix; The Importance of ContextThe Dynamics of Power, Knowledge, and Relationships; Using a Critical Resilience Lens; Methods; References; About the Author
N2  - The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge of educating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges
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