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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Latina students"”.
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The Pathways of Latina Students' Success in Math Education: A Narrative Study
<p>Many Latinx students are failing despite numerous sacrifices, personal goals, and determination. Latinx students endure a range of challenges in and outside of school that significantly impact their identity, mental health, and academic achievement. Many factors impede Latinx students’ success, …
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Navigation of food insecurity in LSES Latina students through community cultural wealth.
… study the navigation of food insecurity in LSES Latina students at selective, normatively affluent universities through the framework of Community Cultural Wealth. From my analysis I propose three categories of how this population of students navigate food insecurity, direct-material navigation, …
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Exploring the Strategies that Latina Students Use to Navigate Work and Family Aspirations: A Case Study of Latina College Students
… the nuances and complexities of the condition of Latinas given the power of the dominant culture in the U.S. Further, the existing research does little to shed light on the implications of gendered school enrollment patterns on other areas of social life, including dating, marriage, and family. …
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Latinas in Higher Education: Paving & Weaving Wholeheartedly
<p>The deficit model in research has often framed Latinas in higher education through a lens of barriers and challenges, reinforcing stereotypes that depict them as unlikely to succeed in academic spaces. However, Latinas are actively resisting these narratives, weaving their resilience into their …
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Latina Women at Columbus State University: The Struggle to Persist
… Latino community changed the face of the nation. Latina women are projected to account for a third of the total female population by the year 2060.</p> <p>This growing segment of society represented untapped human capital, much of which has yet to be discovered and utilized. The Latino population …
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Reclamando Corazón y Voz: Latinas Speak Their Truth Through Plática as Resistance in California Community College Learning Disabilities Assessments
… eligibility for academic accommodations, for Latina students navigating converging forces of race, gender, language, citizenship, and ableism, these assessments often surface unspoken histories of harm. This study advanced Chicana feminista DisCrit (CFDC), extending disability critical race …
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Development of the Coping Ahead Intervention for Latina First-Generation College Students
Background: Academic achievement among Latina students has improved rapidly for college enrollment, but degree completion has not. Many of these Latina students are first-generation college students, with neither parent attending college. Without a role model at home with first-hand experience to …
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The Influences On And Experiences Of Underrepresented Minority Females In One Southeastern United States Medical School
… in enrollment of African American female and Latina students is inconsistent with the demographic makeup across the United States. Exploring the experiences of current and past students at one southeastern medical school assisted in determining a possible cause for that underrepresentation. …
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The Roles of Perceived Subjective Norms and Anticipated Sexism in Women's Intentions to Pursue a Career in Transportation
… the relationships between female high school students' anticipation of a sexist workplace climate in transportation workplaces, perceived subjective norms about transportation work, and intentions to pursue a career in the transportation industry, using the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). A …
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NARRATIVES OF PERSEVERANCE BY LATINA WOMEN PAVING THEIR WAY TO SUCCESS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ART, AND MATH (STEAM) HIGHER EDUCATION
… was to understand the experiences of successful Latina women attaining higher education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) and the challenges they have overcome along the way. Additionally, I sought to examine ways in which these students challenged the stigma of …
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Through the Reading Lens: A Case Study Exploration of the Transfer Aspirations of Latina Community College Students Enrolled in Developmental Literacy Coursework
Many students who begin postsecondary education at community colleges indicate holding aspirations of transferring and obtaining a bachelor’s degree or higher, but less than a third of these students transition to a four-year university within six years (Schudde et al., 2018). Guided by my …
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Exploring Urban Latina Third-Graders’ Scientific Communication and Identity Development
… Research in classroom contexts has shown that students adopt multiple, fluid identities-in-practice. Validating their linguistic and cultural resources can help foster greater inclusion. Additionally, providing diverse opportunities to write and communicate within the discourse of science is …
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Latinas Leading with Latinidad: Incorporating the Latina Identity into Leadership
… United States. Despite the increasing number of Latina students in higher education institutions, the administrative leadership does not reflect the student demographics. This qualitative study investigates the lived experiences of Latina directors within public four-year higher education …
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Latina Principals in Southern California: A Phenomenological Look into their Journey Towards Leadership
… compared with 42% of the White population. Latina students have some of the lowest levels of educational attainment at every point in their K-12 journey and in general, very low occupational attainment. Given these troubling findings, this research sought to understand and tell the stories …
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Experiences Of Successful African American And Hispanic Non-Traditional Single Mothers At An Urban Community College
… the present study explored what motivation students needed to be resilient and persist through their barriers. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of African American and Hispanic nontraditional single parents who (a) attend community colleges in …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… community radio program I call La Gran Comunidad Latina (LGCL); (2) a college-level civic engagement Spanish conversation course titled Noticias Comunitarias (NC) designed and taught in partnership with LGCL; and (3) an antiracist coalition collaboratively led by LGCL’s non-profit derivative, …
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Cariño, Standards, and the Reinforcement Loop: How Mathematics and Science Teachers Integrate Engineering-Based Learning in the Borderlands at an All-Girls STEAM School
… into mathematics and science for a majority Latina population. The study was based on the guiding proposition: Teachers at a STEAM school in the Borderlands are uniquely positioned to integrate engineering into mathematics and science, and they play a significant role in broadening the …
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“I’ll find a way to make my voice heard:” Transformational literacies of Latinx students
The number of Latinx students enrolling in U.S colleges and universities has increased over the last few years (Gramlich, 2017), despite the fact that institutions of higher education, especially those that are historically white, remain difficult and hostile spaces for Latinx, Black, Brown, …