The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: A Study of How First-Generation Latino Male College Students Acquire Cultural Capital
Description:
This study aimed to take asset-based approach and identify Latino male students who were persisting in college, and to identify what strategies made them successful. This qualitative study consulted Tinto's revised student departure model, Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital, as well as Yosso's theory of community cultural wealth. A phenomenological design was utilized to identify the shared experience of first-generation Latino male college students who had persisted in college and maintai…
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Date:
December 2019
Creator:
Portillo, Pedro Atilano-Molina