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Adult Returners
Argy Bargy
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Big Strong Boy
Brain Tumour
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Cos Er
Dominant Patriarchal Ideology
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GCSE Exam
Gender Segregated Education
Girls Public Day School Trust
higher education
Jenny's Story
Local Day Nursery
Mature Returners
mature students
mature women
mature women student experiences
Mature Women Students
Painful Life Experiences
Personal Assistant
Post Traumatic Syndrome
psychological resilience
qualitative case studies
sexual abuse
social identity
social mobility research
Social Science Access
Split Lip
Teenage Unmarried Mother
Traditional Gender Role Socialisation
trauma and education
Vice Versa
woman students
women students
women's life narratives
women's lives
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138713154
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 152 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This title was first published in 2000: Why do mature women return to education? On the face of it, the answer would seem obvious - to gain qualifications which they had not acquired in their earlier learning. However their return to learning seems to be much more than just about paper qualifications. This book describes the experiences of a number of mature women students who return to learning some time after their compulsory schooling. It looks at the links which the women make between their life stories and their return to education. In particular, it focuses upon a number of women who talk of painful experiences either past or current in their lives - experiences such as manipulative and controlling parents, psychological, physical and sexual abuse, an alcoholic parent, the death of a child or other family members and other difficult life events. These experiences have had a considerable and often ongoing effect on the women’s lives and their return to education seems to be much more than just about paper qualifications.
