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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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Hedlund, Dalva – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1993
Interviews with 20 high school students in rural upstate New York reveal that students perceived the rural community as offering a sense of safety and belonging while taking away personal privacy and fostering prejudices. Adult interactions perceived as important included community support for the school and adolescent activities and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Community Involvement, Family Relationship
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Strickland, Janet – Southern Social Studies Journal, 2001
Presents a study in which 12 multicultural literature selections were used in a unit on families in order to facilitate the cultural awareness of second-grade students who live in a predominately African American, rural community. Discusses the themes that emerged. Includes an appendix with a copy of the interview, literature selections, and unit…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Family (Sociological Unit)
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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