Insiders, Outliers

Centering Adult Student Writers at an HBCU

Collie Fulford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4434-6 (ISBN)

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Insiders, Outliers invites readers into the lives of adult HBCU students for whom college is one meaningful activity among many. Although adults over the age of twenty-four comprise a quarter of all undergraduates, they are institutionally segregated and only partially served by a US higher education system that remains organized around traditional-aged learners. Even as such students are regarded as a market for postsecondary institutions, they are routinely marginalized by institutional barriers. Students’ stories of their personal, professional, community, and academic writing experiences illuminate a critical need for more age-inclusive practices across academia. Their cases also offer new conceptual models of writing as an ethical and emotional practice that fuels changes for individuals and the people and institutions that they care about-including higher education. What adult students reveal about writing across their life domains has powerful implications for conceptualizing writing as a complex form of agency and for teaching writing across the curriculum.

Collie Fulford is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Introduction: Insiders, Outliers

1 Confronting Ageism in Higher Education

2 Doing Research about and with Adult Students

3 Rewriting Persistence

4 Writers at Work: Negotiating Ethical Agency

5 Writing with Emotion

Conclusion: Learning from Adult Learners

Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	The American Campus
Zusatzinfo	5 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4434-4 / 1978844344
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4434-6 / 9781978844346
Zustand	Neuware