Working Class Female Students' Experiences of Higher Education: Identities, Choices and Emotions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030889371)

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
ISBN-10: 3030889378
ISBN-13: 9783030889371
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2022
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.31d