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Direct linkRaza, Nadia K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the relationship between community colleges and prisons as similar institutions that absorb and manage displaced workers, economic refugees, and dispossessed adult populations. Based on interviews with adult learners in two community college settings, I discuss how these two seemingly distinctive institutions work…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Institutions, Adult Students, Adult Learning
Peer reviewedMcGrew, Ken – Review of Educational Research, 2011
This article examines the origins, influence, and contemporary understandings of class-based theories of student resistance in education, contributing to or emerging from "Learning to Labor" by Paul Willis. It reports the results of a review of the literature that discusses class-based student resistance and cites the seminal book. More than 500…
Descriptors: Working Class, Resistance (Psychology), Social Status, Barriers
