Family capital: How firstgeneration higher education students break the intergenerational cycle

A Gofen - Family Relations, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… To shed light on the issue of intergenerational inheritance, this article … those families whose
offspring succeeded in breaking this intergenerational cycle by attaining higher education

First-in-Family students' roots and routes into higher education: Familial dynamics as drivers for breaking intergenerational cycles of educational attainment

F Lessky - European Educational Research Journal, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… In line with the latest research, this study shows how students view the purpose of higher
education as being much more than just employability and graduate careers; it is also a space …

Filling up silences—first in family students, capital and university talk in the home

S O'Shea - International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
higher education environment informs the learning discourses and … and first generation
students in postsecondary education. … Breaking away: A study of first generation college students

Which family capitals aid rural and urban first-generation college students in China to realise intergenerational mobility in higher education?

S Cheng - 2021 - ora.ox.ac.uk
… role of family capitals based on Chinese students’ experience. … family capitals aiding rural
and urban first-generation college students to realise intergenerational breakthrough in higher

Reframing first-generation entry: How the familial habitus shapes aspirations for higher education among prospective first-generation students

S Patfield, J Gore, L Fray - Higher Education Research & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… in the student life-cycle, … first-generation students who aspire to university, we aim to
understand the strategic power of habitus – how young people from families where higher education

Avoiding the manufacture of 'sameness': First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher education environment

S O'Shea - Higher Education, 2016 - Springer
first-in-family (or first generation) students manage the transition into the higher education
… how this participation informed intergenerational choices around, and perceptions of, higher

On being the first: The role of family in the experiences of first-generation college students

AL Capannola, EI Johnson - Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
… that accompany intergenerational educational mobility. … no formal education to high
school, many shared that family … their family home to be a break from their lives at school. For …

First-generation college students and family support: A critical review of empirical research literature

S LeBouef, J Dworkin - Education Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
family is recognized as a source of support and contributing to increased rates of motivation
and degree completion, that is often followed with how higher education … and were split on …

Understanding first-generation undergraduate engineering students' entry and persistence through social capital theory

JP Martin, SK Stefl, LW Cain, AL Pfirman - … Journal of STEM Education, 2020 - Springer
… The higher education literature is replete with deficit-based … capital provided by parents and
intergenerational family … is difficult given many agencies’ grant cycles, we assert the need for …

Sociological perspectives on first-generation college students

IR Beattie - Handbook of the sociology of education in the 21st …, 2018 - Springer
… role education plays in the intergenerational transmission of … used to define first generation
high school students, FGS … without a high school diploma while those whose families hail …