Working Class Female Students' Experiences of Higher Education

Identities, Choices and Emotions
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-88937-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 177 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shields, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Geschlechterpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Sam 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.