Negotiating the risk of debt‐financed higher education
The experience of lone parent students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11159271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamsin Hinton‐smith (0000-0002-7550-9077, University of Sussex Brighton UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207-222 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-1926 • E-ISSN: 1469-3518 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/berj.3201 |
| OpenAlex | W1777939377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 38 |
Widening participation has opened higher education ( HE ) to diverse learners, but in doing so has created challenges negotiating situations of disadvantaged positioning compared with peers conforming more closely to the ideal ‘bachelor boy’ student. As one of the most financially vulnerable groups of students, lone parents occupy a doubly precarious position negotiating the challenges, including financial constraints, of both university participation and raising children alone. Their experiences of HE participation are particularly important to understand as increasing financial precariousness of both studentship and lone parenthood squeezes them further through concurrent rising university fees and welfare cuts. This paper draws on insights from longitudinal qualitative research with 77 lone mothers in England to explore the negotiation of social and economic risks and rewards involved in their undertaking of a debt‐financed higher education
Attendance · Bachelor · Debt · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Friendship · Higher education · Negotiation · Political science · Position (finance) · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Welfare · Finance · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |