Negotiating Higher Education: Latina Teachers' Memories of Striving for Success

摘要

This report presents an analysis of four interviews with Latina teachers who discuss their experiences getting into and through college. Walker and her colleagues show that Latinas often encounter rigid gender, ethnic, and cultural expectations in their quest for higher education, as well as a lack of institutional support in their university settings. The authors point out that if we hope to encourage academic success among this population which is well-suited to working with beginning readers who are also English-language learners we have to understand and systematically address these issues.