Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity

ISBN-13: 9780367677916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 206 str.

Garth Stahl; Sarah McDonald

Opis

First-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely underrepresented in higher education internationally. The book explores and analyses the gendered and classed subjectivities of 48 Australian students in the First-in-Family Project serving as a fresh perspective to the study of youth in transition.

Spis treści

Part I: The Australian higher education context 1: Educational inequities and widening participation in Australia 2: Gender, class, and aspirations in higher education 3: Liminality, gender subjectivities, and the transition to higher education Part II: Gender subjectivities in schooling and family life 4: Family life and gendered aspirations 5: Secondary school-based influencers Part III: Liminality, gender and the transition to higher education 6: Belonging, liminality, and changing subjectivities in the first year of higher education 7: Liminal experiences with service-sector labour 8: The gendering of mental health and wellbeing 9: Cultural and ethnic lifeworlds 10: Fulfillment in the first-in-family experience Part IV: Implications for higher education policy 11—Gender, the first-in-family experience and widening participation