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'You need a qualification for everything these days.' The impact of work, welfare and disaffection upon the aspirations of access to Higher Education students
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Warmington, Paul (2003) 'You need a qualification for everything these days.' The impact of work, welfare and disaffection upon the aspirations of access to Higher Education students. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24 (1). pp. 95-108. doi:10.1080/01425690301911 ISSN 0142-5692.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425690301911
Abstract
This article examines the perceptions held by mature students on an Access to Higher Education programme at an inner-city college as to the social, cultural and economic significance of the qualifications they hoped to gain. Emphasising the critical potential of the students' voices, this ethnography depicts them mining their biographies in order to neutralise the educational site and imbue their Access projects with value sufficient to sustain them in taking the fraught step of returning to education. The voices of the group are saturated by tensions deriving from their experiences as disaffected workers on the peripheries of the labour market and their investment in further and higher education as the preferred means by which to escape social marginalisation and welfare dependence. Their motives and aspirations reveal a lived critique of the iconic notions of widening participation and social ex/inclusion in which contemporary post-compulsory education rhetoric is embedded.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education, Higher--Great Britain, Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Great Britain, Education, Higher--Social aspects--Great Britain | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Sociology of Education | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||
ISSN: | 0142-5692 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2003 | ||||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 95-108 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01425690301911 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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