Abstract
For many situationally marginalized Mexican-descent students today, hopelessness is fueled by a bleak life situation that is reflected in their school performance. Success in school remains elusive because they are not or have not had the opportunity to become members of a community that contributes to their sense of agency, possibility and hope in life or educational pursuits. From a sociocultural perspective of learning and developing a “way of being” and identity through this learning, the purpose of this study was to see how one socially, educationally, and socioeconomically marginalized, Mexican-descent student struggled, learned and “became” another way of being in his first year of college mediated through a retention and support program.
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Reyes, R. Cholo to ‘Me’: From Peripherality to Practicing Student Success for a Chicano Former Gang Member. Urban Rev 38, 165–186 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-006-0024-8
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