First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life Motivations, Transitions and Participation /

• Main Authors: O'Shea, Sarah (Author), May, Josephine (Author), Stone, Cathy (Author), Delahunty, Janine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Career Skills.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students’ decisions to return to education impact upon their family members and significant others. While it is well known that parental educational background has a substantial impact on the educatio...

Table of Contents:

• PART I
• Chapter 1. Setting the Scene
• Chapter 2. The Lack of What …?: First-in-Family Learners and their University Experience
• Chapter 3. Disrupting the Deficit: Beyond Notions of Lack for First-in-Family Students
• Chapter 4. What Am I Waiting For?
• PART II
• Chapter 5. Trailblazing: Motivations and relationship impacts for first-in-family enabling students
• Chapter 6. The Online Student Experience: New Challenges for Engagement and Support
• Chapter 7. ‘So How was Big School Today?’ Family Perceptions of HE Participation
• Chapter 8. Parents Managing University and Family Life
• Chapter 9. Motivated Men: First-in-Family Male Students
• Chapter 10. Concluding Thoughts.