Women with caring responsibilities: is there a genuine place for them at university?

Title: Women with caring responsibilities: is there a genuine place for them at university?
Creator: Stone, Cathy; O'Shea, Sarah
Relation: Adults in the Academy: Voices of Lifelong Learners p. 83-91
Relation: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching 20
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004506428_010
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: This chapter draws on qualitative Australian research which expands understanding of how women with caring responsibilities narrate their engagement as university students. Drawing on narrative biographical interviews, case studies, and detailed surveys, this chapter not only explores the embodied nature of this movement into and through higher education but equally draws attention to the complex negotiations that these students undertake to manage the 'homeplace' and the university 'space'. In presenting these richly descriptive insights, the need for a more inclusive approach by universities emerges; an approach that seeks to understand and accommodate the realities of the lives of adult students with caring responsibilities.
Subject: higher education; gender; adult learners; mature-age students; student equity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439494
Identifier: uon:40945
Identifier: ISBN:9789004506411
Language: eng
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