Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility Audiobook (Free)

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been articles of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant university students. While we realize this path generally entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention continues to be paid to the deep personal compromises such college students need to make because they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the real cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing about UPGRADING without Losing THE RIGHT PATH: The Moral Costs of Upward Flexibility Your Way looks at the honest dilemmas of upward mobility confronted by college students as they make an effort to earn an effective place in society.

Drawing upon philosophy, sociable science, personal stories, and interviews, Jennifer Morton reframes the college encounter, factoring in not only educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family members, friends, and community. Discovering that college student strivers tend to give up the second option for the former, negating their sense of self, Morton looks for to reverse this program. She urges educators to empower college students with a new narrative of upward mobility-one that truthfully situates ethical costs in historic, social, and economic contexts and which allows students to make informed decisions for themselves.