The triple shift: student-mothers, identity work and engagement with low-status vocationally related higher education

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 107-127

  H Smith, Paul ^a  

^a LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; foundation degree; Goffman; habitus; identity work; stigma; Student mothers; teaching assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019608586     PISSN: 13596748     EISSN: 17475112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13596748.2016.1272087     Document Type: Article

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