The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students : New Insights for Policy, Practice, and Research /
The contributors make the case that the new generation of Black students differ in attitudes and backgrounds from earlier generations, and demonstrate the importance of understanding the diversity of Black identity. Successive chapters address the nature and importance of Black spirituality for redu...
| Други автори: | Strayhorn, Terrell L., Terrell, Melvin C. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Sterling, Va. :
Stylus,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=440883 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Evolving challenges of Black college students. |
| Резюме: |
The contributors make the case that the new generation of Black students differ in attitudes and backgrounds from earlier generations, and demonstrate the importance of understanding the diversity of Black identity. Successive chapters address the nature and importance of Black spirituality for reducing isolation and race-related stress, and as a source of meaning making; students' college selection and decision process and the expectations it fosters; the social-psychological determinants of academic achievement, and how resiliency can be developed and nurtured; institutional climate and the. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781579225650 1579225659 |