The Triple Shift: Student-Mothers, Identity Work and Engagement with Low-Status Vocationally Related Higher Education

Autor/in	Smith, Paul H.
Titel	The Triple Shift: Student-Mothers, Identity Work and Engagement with Low-Status Vocationally Related Higher Education
Quelle	In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 22 (2017) 1, S.107-127 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smith, Paul H.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359 6748
DOI	10.1080/13596748.2016.1272087
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; College Students; Observation; Documentation; Mothers; Identification (Psychology); Student Attitudes; Teacher Aides; Foreign Countries; Social Bias; Nontraditional Students; Vocational Education; Participant Observation; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Collegestudent; Beobachtung; Dokumentation; Mother; Mutter; Schülerverhalten; Handreichung; Lehrerhilfe; Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Abstract	This paper discusses a piece of qualitative research that examined the narratives that a group of learners articulated when they discussed their experiences of studying on a relatively low-status, vocationally related higher education programme. These students were school-based teaching assistants who were undertaking foundation degree study at a post-1992 English university. Data collection was primarily undertaken via semi-structured interviewing with first- and second-year foundation degree students. Eight group interviews were carried out with 44 participants. These were followed up with 12 individual interviews. Participant observations and documentary analysis of course-related documents were also drawn upon as contextualising sources of information. The accounts that were provided by students who undertook study alongside mothering are focused upon within this paper. These learners were routinely found to be involved in a triple shift of identity work. This stemmed from their positioning in the home, higher education and their workplaces. It is suggested that the concepts of identity management, disidentifiers and stigma can be usefully employed alongside habitus and field to make sense of the accounts that are documented. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01