Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.
- ISBN10 0520387104
- ISBN13 9780520387102
- Publish Date 14 June 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English