Gendering the First-in-Family Experience

Transitions, Liminality, Performativity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-67791-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Higher Education

Despite efforts to widen participation, first-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely under-represented in higher education internationally. This 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. Drawing on liminality to provide theoretical insight, the authors focus on how they engage in multiple overlapping and mutually informing transitions into and from higher education, the family, service work, and so forth. While studies of class disadvantage and widening participation in HE remains robust, there is considerably less work addressing the gendered experiences of first-in-family students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stahl, Garth

Mcdonald, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and Research Fellow for the Australian Research Council. His research interests lie on the nexus of neoliberalism and socio-cultural studies of education, identity, equity/inequality, and social change. Currently, his research projects and publications encompass theoretical and empirical studies of learner identities, gender and youth, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, gendered subjectivities, equity and difference, and educational reform.

Sarah McDonald is an early career researcher in the Centre for Research in Education and Social Inclusion in Education Futures at the University of South Australia. Her current research focuses on how the intersection between gender and class interacts with higher education, and how this interaction impacts upon the construction of feminine identities for young women transitioning into university. She is interested in gendered subjectivities, girlhood, social mobility, social barriers, and inequalities in education.