Community Colleges and Their Students
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Community Colleges and Their Students

Co-construction and Organizational Identity

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Community Colleges and Their Students

Co-construction and Organizational Identity

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This book employs a socio-cultural approach to study the organizational dynamics and experiences of self-formation that shape community college life. The authors use case studies to analyze both the symbolic dimension and practices that enable the production of educational experiences in seven community colleges across the U.S. Levin and Montero-Hernandez explain the construction of organizational identity and student development as a result of the connection between institutional forces and individual agency. This work emphasizes the forms and conditions of interaction among college personnel, students, and external groups that were enacted to respond to the demands and opportunities in both participants local and larger contexts. The authors acknowledge both the collective and individual efforts of community college personnel to create caring community colleges that support nontraditional students.

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Yes, you can access Community Colleges and Their Students by J. Levin,Kenneth A. Loparo,Virginia Montero-Hernandez in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education Administration. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Community Colleges Seen from an Organizational-Cultural Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
  9. 2 The Construction of Educational Experiences: Elements and Dynamics of the Complexity of College Life at Bakersfield College
  10. 3 Organizational Culture and Organizational Identity: Constructions of Student Accommodation in Community College of Denver
  11. 4 Discourses of Democratization: Students’ Upward Mobility and the University Transfer Approach at Borough of Manhattan Community College
  12. 5 Overlooked Differentiation and Student Categorization: The Hybrid Identity and the Climate of Isolation in Wake Technical Community College
  13. 6 Strategic Planning and the Struggle to Generate a Responsive College: Differential Effects upon the Development of the Student Body at Harry Truman College in Illinois
  14. 7 Organizational Change and Student Accommodation: Edmonds Community College as an Adaptive-Responsive Organization
  15. 8 Forging Student Identity: Socialization, Development, and Contextual Tensions in Community Colleges
  16. 9 Conclusions
  17. Appendix
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index