Post-Secondary Education on the Edge : Self-improvement and Community Development in a Cape Breton Coal Town
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cultural Critique
ISBN-10
0820455466
ISBN-13
9780820455464
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 6th, 2002
Print length
149 Pages
Weight
224 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Society & culture: generalSociology & anthropologyEducational strategies & policy
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This ethnographic study addresses the ways residents of an economically distressed community in Nova Scotia perceive post-secondary education. Historically, the efficacy of education as an economic development strategy has been contradicted by the lack of work available locally and the personal costs associated with acquiring credentials. Yet education has been and continues to be a strong central value for this community. This book confirms the opportunities educational achievement can offer to individuals and yet questions how credentials alone can lift economically distressed communities as a whole if the systemic issue of regional political economy is not addressed.
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