Enhancement and constraint: student-mothers’ experiences of higher vocational education, emotion and time

Cambridge Journal of Education

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 163-179

  Smith, Paul H ^a  

^a LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Educational guilt; foundation degree; higher vocational education; integrated lives; student mothers; teaching assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049599957     PISSN: 0305764X     EISSN: 14693577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2018.1483483     Document Type: Article

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