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Martina, Camille Anne.

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The role of institutional agents in disadvantaged students' attainment of academic success.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of institutional agents in disadvantaged students' attainment of academic success./
Author:	Martina, Camille Anne.
Description:	539 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 0954.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3169583
ISBN:	054205633X

The role of institutional agents in disadvantaged students' attainment of academic success.
Martina, Camille Anne.

The role of institutional agents in disadvantaged students' attainment of academic success. - 539 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 0954.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2005.

Using Bourdieu's (1986) concepts of social and cultural capital linked to one's habitus, this study aims at explaining why some historically disadvantaged students succeed in school while many others do not. Over my seventeen years as an urban educator, I observed many disadvantaged students experience academic success. For this study, I recruited students in "Dewey High School" (pseudonym) who were enrolled in the school's International Baccalaureate Programme that is recognized for its academic rigor. This phenomenon refutes "reductionist" social reproduction theories (Bourdieu, 1973, 1977; Bowles & Gintis, 1976; Giroux, 1983; Fine, 1991; Macleod, 1987) as well as Coleman's "deficiency" model and concept of social capital (Coleman & Hoffer, 1987) that would instead predict that students from a disadvantaged background will not be academically successful. To explain why the disadvantaged students I observed experienced academic success, I used a mix methods case study approach (Yin, 2003) to examine these students' history, as well as their attitudes, perceptions and behaviors (habitus) regarding schooling success. In this investigation, I particularly focused on the role played by these students' "institutional agents"---including peers and friends, as well as teachers, relatives and other adults.

ISBN: 054205633XSubjects--Topical Terms:

626654
Education, Sociology of.

The role of institutional agents in disadvantaged students' attainment of academic success.
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