Lisa M. Nunn
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Defining Student Success
The Role of School and Culture
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
A provocative work that will prompt a thorough reevaluation of the culture of secondary education, Defining Student Success shows how different schools, promoting modified versions of larger cultural ideas of success, foster distinct understandings of what it takes to succeed—understandings that do more to reproduce a socioeconomic status quo than to promote upward mobility.
- Copyright year: 2014
College Belonging
How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
College Belonging reveals how colleges’ and universities’ efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to “get out there!” and “find your place” by joining student organizations, sports teams, clubs and the like. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works.
- Copyright year: 2021
33 Simple Strategies for Faculty
A Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
33 Simple Strategies for Faculty is a guidebook filled with practical solutions on how to best help first-year and first-generation students who are struggling to adjust to college life. It gives faculty quick and efficient exercises they can use both inside and outside of the classroom to bolster their students’ academic success and wellbeing.
- Copyright year: 2019
Defining Student Success
The Role of School and Culture
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
A provocative work that will prompt a thorough reevaluation of the culture of secondary education, Defining Student Success shows how different schools, promoting modified versions of larger cultural ideas of success, foster distinct understandings of what it takes to succeed—understandings that do more to reproduce a socioeconomic status quo than to promote upward mobility.
- Copyright year: 2014
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