The Mexican American Community College Experience

Blanca Campa

doi:10.5771/9781475834086

Summary

The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge ofeducating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges, the largest institutions in today’s landscape of higher education. It describes the cultivation of resilience in these students and how engaging, dynamic faculty help them succeed in their studies. This blending of psychology and education theory, with a critical twist, shows how faculty help students develop a foundation of resilience and a larger sense of purpose based on their unique knowledge, pedagogies, and culture, an area not traditionally addressed in curriculum and instruction. Creative teaching, resilience, and energetic student stories make this a celebration of Mexican American success at a major regional community college on the U.S – Mexico border.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-3406-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-3408-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 134
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. 1. A Brief Overview No access
  2. Stories and Examples No access
  3. Qualitative Research as a Journey No access
  4. Gardens of Possibility No access
  5. Background and Purpose No access
  6. Why Do Latinos Choose Community Colleges? No access
  7. My Journey No access
  8. The First-Year Experience No access
  9. Drama in the Garden No access
  10. Honored but Invisible No access
1. Mattie: A Model of Resilience No access
2. The Resilience Framework No access
3. Personal Protective Factors No access
1. Family as an Environmental Protective Factor No access
2. School as an Environmental Protective Factor No access
3. Community as an Environmental Protective Factor No access
4. Pedagogies of Survival No access
5. Teacher Qualities No access
1. Social Competency through Meaningful Relationships No access
2. Faculty Teaching con Respeto No access
1. The First-Year Experience Course No access
2. Validation through Learning Communities No access
3. Validation in Action No access
1. Family and the Larger Purpose No access
2. Community Uplift No access
3. The Puente Project No access
1. “Playing the Game” No access
2. Weaving Social Webs No access
3. Balancing Respeto and Ambition No access
4. Learning Communities No access
5. Getting Ready to Meet the World No access
Conclusion No access Pages 111 - 116
1. The Importance of Context No access
2. The Dynamics of Power, Knowledge, and Relationships No access
3. Using a Critical Resilience Lens No access
4. Methods No access
References No access Pages 125 - 132
About the Author No access Pages 133 - 134