Children's Leadership on Climate Change
What Can We Learn from Child-Led Initiatives in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.28.1.0090Keywords:
neighborhood, cultural heterogeneity, college, urban, culture, adolescents, students of color, higher education, race, poverty, social contextAbstract
For decades, higher education has concerned itself with understanding the complex pathways to college for low-income students of color in general, and those in urban contexts in particular. This paper applies the concept of neighborhood cultural heterogeneity, defined as the presence of a wide array of competing and conflicting cultural models, to explore college aspirations and enrollment among low-income, urban youth of color. The findings, based on a five-month ethnography involving low-income students of color in a Los Angeles neighborhood, highlight diverse positive and negative neighborhood-informed messages regarding college-going.
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2022-02-23
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