| Pivotal Moments: How Educators Can Put All Students on the Path to College Contributor(s): Espinoza, Roberta (Author), Cushman, Kathleen (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1612501192 ISBN-13: 9781612501192 Publisher: Harvard Education PR OUR PRICE: $31.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teacher & Student Mentoring - Education | Counseling - Academic Development - Education | Secondary |
| Dewey: 371.102 |
| LCCN: 2011937500 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For many students, making their way to higher education requires more than hard work and determination. Low-income minority students who overcome obstacles to achieve academic success have usually encountered at least one college-educated adult in their schooling who took the initiative to reach out to them and provide concrete academic guidance. In this book, sociologist Roberta Espinoza introduces the idea of "pivotal moments"--interventions that point the way toward college, particularly for students from working-class or ethnic minority backgrounds. These pivotal encounters and the relationships that spring from them can help students accumulate procedural knowledge about attending college (cultural capital) and interpersonal support (social capital). Pivotal Moments introduces a diverse group of students whose experiences highlight how teachers, counselors, academic outreach professionals, and professors can help students circumvent the barriers they encounter in attaining school success. It shows how the timing, duration, and impact of pivotal moments can redirect students' educational trajectories. The book also translates the theory of pivotal moments into concrete practices that educators at all levels can use to intervene more effectively in the lives of working-class minority students. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cushman, Kathleen: - Kathleen Cushman has documented the learning of adolescents in and out of school since 1989. A co-founder of What Kids Can Do, she gathered youth voices in WKCD's books about school culture and climate (the Fires in the Bathroom series), student motivation and mastery (Fires in the Mind and The Motivation Equation), and college access (First in the Family). From 2011 to 2014 she documented the work of the Deeper Learning community of practice brought together by the Hewlett Foundation, and she contributes to the Learning Deeply blog for Education Week. Since 2014 she has consulted to the New Teacher Center's initiative on social and emotional learning.Espinoza, Roberta: - Roberta Espinoza is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton. |
