The Diverted Dream : Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985
Brint, Steven, Karabel, Jerome
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1991
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- Title
- The Diverted Dream : Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985
- Author
- Brint, Steven, Karabel, Jerome
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195048164
- ISBN 13
- 9780195048162
- Item weight
- 1.052 pounds
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But in the past two decades, the community college has undergone a profound change, shifting its emphasis from liberal-arts transfer courses to terminal vocational programs. Drawing on developments nationwide as well as in the specific case of Massachusetts, Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel offer a history of community colleges in America, explaining why this shift has occurred after years of student resistance and examining its implications for upward mobility. As the authors argue in this exhaustively researched and pioneering study, the junior college has always faced the contradictory task of extending a college education to the hitherto excluded, while diverting the majority of them from the nation's four-year colleges and universities. Very early on, two-year college administrators perceived vocational training for "semi-professional" work as their and their students' most secure long-term niche in the educational hierarchy. With two thirds of all community college students enrolled in vocational programs, the authors contend that the dream of education as a route to upward mobility, as well as the ideal of equal educational opportunity for all, are seriously threatened.
With the growing public debate about the state of American higher education and with more than half of all first-time degree-credit students now enrolled in community colleges, a full-scale, historically grounded examination of their place in American life is long overdue. This landmark study provides such an examination, and in so doing, casts critical light on what is distinctive not only about American education, but American society itself.
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"Well-documented and raises important question about the role of education in our society. For the working class and minority students that predominate in two-year institutions, this book serves as a cruel reminder of the limits of opportunity in a class-structured society."―New York Times Book Review
"This is an exemplary and significant book, in both scope and execution....This is a well-researched, well-organized, and well-written book that serves as a model of theoretically grounded sociological work at its best. I recommend it for all who are interested in education, political processes and institutions, social change, and organizations. It is likely to be the definitive work on community colleges and democratic ideals."―Contemporary Sociology
"An important study that legitimizes further the debate on the social role of community colleges in American society."―Journal of Higher Education
"Represents a monumental scholarly contribution to the literature on community colleges in particular and to higher education and the American society in general....It is 'must' reading for every community college scholar, practicing administrator, faculty member, and policy maker."―Community College Review
"The book is a major contribution...to the institutional approach in organizations research....[It] may one day be considered a classic."―Administrative Science Quarterly
"The definitive revisionist history....This is an essential work for anyone interested in balancing the conventional history of this unique American institution."―Choice
"A comprehensive study of the junior college movement and, in so doing, make an important contribution to the literature on the history of American education."―Journal of American History
"It tells an important story....The authors are to be congratulated because their retrospective account encompasses so much more than other writers on the subject. In a lucid, lively style they present and account for all the "facts" about community colleges."―Minerva
"The long-neglected subject of community colleges in American higher education is illuminated with great intensity in The Diverted Dream....[The book] stands out not only as a major contribution to the literature on schooling, but as a powerful guide to significant features of American political and social development."―Ira Katznelson, New School for Social Research
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