Moving Up without Losing Your Way (eBook)

The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

Jennifer M. Morton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19065-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourishUpward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility-the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity-faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society.Drawing upon philosophy, social science, personal stories, and interviews, Jennifer Morton reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, Morton seeks to reverse this course. She urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility-one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves.A powerful work with practical implications, Moving Up without Losing Your Way paves a hopeful road so that students might achieve social mobility while retaining their best selves.

Autor

Jennifer M. Morton is associate professor of philosophy at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: academic degree • Acculturation • Adapt • Adobe • African Americans • african american students • After Virtue • Asian American students • Attachment Theory • Bachelor's degree • barack obama • Biculturalism • Career • caregiver • child care • Childcare • City College of New York • City University of New York • Classroom • Codeswitching • college application • College costs • community college • Course requirements • cultural framework • Cultural Lag • cultural mismatch • culture of poverty • debt • disadvantage • disadvantaged • Distance Education • doctorate • Double-Consciousness • Education • Educational institution • Educational technology • educational underachievement • Eldercare • Ethical goods • Etiquette • experiential knowledge • Explanation • Extended family • extreme poverty • Faculty (academic staff) • financial aid • Flourishing • Food insecurity • Fraternities and sororities • Graduate school • grandparent • Healthcare • higher education • His Family • immigrant narrative • income • Institution • Internship • Ivy League • job interview • John U. Ogbu • learning • Lecture • lesson plan • magnet school • Make a Difference • marginalized communities • master's degree • Maya Beasley • Mental disorder • Mentorship • minority group • Multiculturalism • narrative • Negotiation • Norm (social) • Obligation • obstacle • of education • online education • oppositional culture • Oppression • Pedagogy • Philosopher • Philosophy of education • Politician • Poverty • private university • Profession • psychologist • Psychology • Public university • Quality Education • racial integration • Racial segregation • Racism • Requirement • Residential college • Role model • Roommate • safety net • Sallie Mae • Scholarship • Section 8 • self-affirmation • self-concept • Self-Image • sibling • Signithia Fordham • Social Environment • Social mobility • social safety net • Social Science • Social Structure • social support systems • socioeconomic segregation • Sociology • Sonia Sotomayor • Student • Student Debt • student-teacher interactions • Teacher • The True Cost • The Various • Trade-off • traditional story • Tuition payments • Undermatching • Unemployment • University • Values education • Volunteering • Wealth gap
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19065-8 / 0691190658
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19065-5 / 9780691190655