Working Class Female Students' Experiences of Higher Education

Identities, Choices and Emotions

Sam Shields (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 118 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-88934-0 (ISBN)

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This book explores the experiences of working-class women undergraduates at three universities in the North of England. The author examines the women's identities, choices and emotions in relation to higher education; and how they reframe their constrained university choices to maximise their chances of academic success. Highlighting differences in working-class women's learner identities, caring commitments and quests for upwards social mobility, the book offers an understanding of working-class female student journeys and their mixture of compromise, uncertainty and hope. It will be of interest and value to scholars of working-class women students, widening participation, and sociologists of education.

Samantha Shields is Lecturer in Education at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests include social inequalities and higher education, particularly focused on the intersection between gender and social class.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Women's university education: history and policy.- Chapter 3. The Study.- Chapter 4. Deciding to go to university.- Chapter 5. Learner identities.- Chapter 6. Balancing Acts.- Chapter 7. Stepping stones.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Zusatzinfo	IX, 118 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Gender and Education • gender in higher education • learner identity • Social mobility • working class students
ISBN-10	3-030-88934-3 / 3030889343
ISBN-13	978-3-030-88934-0 / 9783030889340
Zustand	Neuware