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Means, Darris R.; Clayton, Ashley B.; Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Baynes, Patti; Umbach, Paul D. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
This qualitative case study explores the career and educational aspirations, college choice process, and college barriers and opportunities of 26 rural, African American high school students. Data included interviews with 26 students and 11 school staff members. Findings suggest that the students' rural context shapes aspirations. In addition,…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Rural Schools, High School Students, African American Students
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O'Brien, Susie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1998
Seven intensive interviews with female college students at Roseworthy College, a rural agricultural college in South Australia, revealed that the college's historic rural masculine tradition and misogynist social environment restrict women to narrow sexual-subject positions: acting like a male; tutor/cleaner/mother/cook; "slut" versus…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, College Students, Cultural Images, Females