"I Want an Education": Two Case Studies of Working-Class Ambition and Ambivalence in Further and Higher Education

Autor/in	Morrison, Andrew
Titel	"I Want an Education": Two Case Studies of Working-Class Ambition and Ambivalence in Further and Higher Education
Quelle	In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 15 (2010) 1, S.67-80 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-6748
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Females; Educational Experience; Aspiration; Decision Making; Barriers; Case Studies; Vocational Education; Higher Education; Access to Education; Social Stratification; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Weibliches Geschlecht; Bildungserfahrung; Streben; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Ausland
Abstract	Using data from in-depth individual interviews, this article discusses the educational experiences and ambitions of two young working-class full-time female students. The two studies are derived from a wider investigation into student post-16 educational experiences and decision-making, based on a sample of students and staff of an Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education in Travel and Tourism at a large further and higher education college in the West Midlands of England. The author considers the young women's stories in the light of governmental aims to widen participation in the post-16 sector. It is argued that, although the students' stories offer a positive account of determination and ambition, they also reveal ambivalences and struggles that reflect the nature of the barriers that working-class students can encounter within post-16 education. Such ambivalences and struggles reflect, in turn, the wider contradictions that the post-compulsory sector faces within the "market state". (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10