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ERIC Number: EJ957396
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 11
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0271-0633
First-Generation Latina Graduate Students: Balancing Professional Identity Development with Traditional Family Roles
Leyva, Valerie Lester
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, n127 p21-31 Fall 2011
The author discusses the little-examined tensions that female and Latina first-generation college students (FGS) experience while negotiating their ethnic and professional identities. Despite having general parental support for pursuing an education, Latina and female FGS who are graduate students in the author's university department must juggle multiple identities of gender role expectations with being students, family members, and parents.
Descriptors: Graduate Students, First Generation College Students, Sex Role, Family Life, Family Role, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics, Professional Identity, Hispanic American Students, Minority Group Students, Role Conflict, Family Attitudes, Coping, Womens Education, Womens Studies, Barriers, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Social Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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