Moving Up Without Losing Your Way

The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

De: Jennifer Morton

Narrado por: Chloe Cannon

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society.

Drawing upon philosophy, social science, personal stories, and interviews, Jennifer Morton reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, Morton seeks to reverse this course. She urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility - one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves.

©2019 Princeton University Press (P)2019 Tantor

Sounds like a narration by Siri or Alexa

I listened to a podcast featuring Jennifer Morton. I was intrigued by her stories and decided to buy the audiobook. The content is great but it’s hard to stay focused because the narrator sounds like she is reading the phone book. No inflection in her voice whatsoever. Jennifer on the other hand, has a beautiful accent which lends itself to the content and subject of the book. These are stories of people’s lives, and experiences through a cultural lens. So the automated voice of the narrator really detracts from that and it’s disappointing!