Men Accessing Education: Masculinities, Class and Choice
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| Title: | Men Accessing Education: Masculinities, Class and Choice |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Woodin, Tom, Burke, Penny Jane |
| Source: | Australian Educational Researcher. Dec 2007 34(3):119-134. |
| Availability: | Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). P.O. Box 71, Coldstream, Victoria 3770, Australia. Tel: +61-0359-649-031; Fax: +61-0359-649-586; e-mail: aare@aare.edu.au; Web site: http://www.aare.edu.au/aer/contents.htm |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Working Class, Middle Class, Foundation Programs, Lifelong Learning, Minority Groups, Males, Masculinity, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Social Class, Racial Factors, Decision Making, Social Influences |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom |
| ISSN: | 0311-6999 |
| Abstract: | This paper draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project on men (aged 18-54) participating in pre-university access and foundation programs in four London further and higher education colleges. Men's educational choices and decisions are analysed and discussed within current policy debates about widening participation and lifelong learning. These choices are placed within a framework which focuses on masculinity in terms of classed and racialised identifications. For working class and ethnic minority students choices tend to be constrained by mix of material, institutional and emotional forces. For middle class ethnic minority students these factors are only partially alleviated. (Contains 1 note.) |
| Abstractor: | Author |
| Number of References: | 39 |
| Entry Date: | 2008 |
| Accession Number: | EJ787635 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This paper draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project on men (aged 18-54) participating in pre-university access and foundation programs in four London further and higher education colleges. Men's educational choices and decisions are analysed and discussed within current policy debates about widening participation and lifelong learning. These choices are placed within a framework which focuses on masculinity in terms of classed and racialised identifications. For working class and ethnic minority students choices tend to be constrained by mix of material, institutional and emotional forces. For middle class ethnic minority students these factors are only partially alleviated. (Contains 1 note.) |
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| ISSN: | 0311-6999 |
