Reworking the Student Departure PuzzleMore than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the "departure puzzle," and for years, the most important body of work on student retention has come from sociologist Vincent Tinto. The contributors, including Tinto himself, offer a variety of both theoretical and methodological perspectives to the Student Departure Puzzle. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Economic Influences on Persistence Reconsidered | 29 |
A Psychological Model of College Student Retention | 48 |
College Climate and the Tinto Model | 62 |
Linking Learning and Leaving | 81 |
Optimizing Capital Social Reproduction | 95 |
Theoretical Considerations in the Study of Minority | 127 |
Investigating the Processes of Persistence | 157 |
Where Is the Student? | 170 |
A Cultural Perspective on Student Departure | 196 |
Power Identity and the Dilemma of College Student Departure | 213 |
New Institutional Theory and Student Departure | 235 |
Reinvigorating Theory and Research on | 257 |
Contributors | 275 |
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| Title | Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle Vanderbilt issues in higher education |
| Editor | John M. Braxton |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0826513085, 9780826513083 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › EDUCATION / General |
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