Sole Parent Students and Higher Education Gender, Policy and Widening Participation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hook, Genine A. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Θέματα: Education.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Gender identity in education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education and state.; Higher Education.; Education Policy.; Sociology of Education.; Gender and Education.

This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions of female parental care-work are analysed as both constraining and enabling sole parent participation in higher education. Social welfare policies an...