Working Class Female Students' Experiences Of Higher Education: Identities, Choices And Emotions (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.

• | Author: Sam Shields
• | Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• | Publication Date: Nov 11, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3030889378
• | ISBN-13: 9783030889371