An Anthropological Analysis of Student Participation in College.
An Anthropological Analysis of Student Participation in College.
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学生大学参与的人类学分析。
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10.1080/00221546.1992.11778391
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1992
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W. Tierney
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W. Tierney
在这篇文章中，我对Tinto被广泛接受的理论模型提出异议，该模型认为大学参与就好像是一种“通过仪式”，学术和社会融合对学生的坚持至关重要。首先，我认为，廷托误解了人类学的仪式概念，并在这样做，他创造了一个理论建设与实际影响，持有潜在的有害后果的种族和少数民族。我批判的认识论论点廷托已经阐明了社会整合的文化视角告知批判理论[11，12，13，14，36]。也就是说，我对现实持社会建构主义的观点，我的观点是，我们的理论模型的目的不仅仅是描述世界，然后，我通过解构两位大学管理人员的话语，强调了社会融合主义立场的实际或“真实的世界”含义，他们是为期两年的调查的一部分，有关学院-美国印第安大学生的学习模式[36]。管理人员描述了他们如何看待美洲原住民学生的
In this article I take issue with Tinto's widely accepted theoretical model that views college participation as if it were a "rite of passage" where academic and social integration is essential for student persistence. First, I argue that Tinto has misinterpreted the anthropological notions of ritual, and in doing so he has created a theoretical construct with practical implications that hold potentially harmful consequences for racial and ethnic minorities. I critique the epistemological argument Tinto has articulated that of social integration from a cultural perspective informed by critical theory [11, 12, 13, 14, 36]. That is, I take a social constructionist view of reality and I operate from the perspective that the purpose of our theoretical models is not merely to describe the world, but to change it. I then highlight the practical or "real world" implications of a social integrationist stance by deconstructing the discourse of two college administrators who were part of a two year investigation pertaining to the college-going patterns of American Indian college students [36]. The administrators describe how they perceived Native American students'