Working class female students' experiences of higher education : identities, choices and emotions
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Working class female students' experiences of higher education : identities, choices and emotions
（Palgrave studies in gender and education / series editor, Yvette Taylor）（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
- : pbk.
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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.
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