First-in-family students, university experience and family life : motivations, transitions and participation /: motivations, transitions and participation. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarah O'Shea, Josephine May, Cathy Stone, Janine Delahunty.
• Authors: O'Shea, Sarah; May, Josephine, 1950-; Stone, Cathy; Delahunty, Janine
• Contents: Part I 1. Setting the Scene.- 2. The Lack of What …?: First-in-Family Learners and their University Experience.- 3. Disrupting the Deficit – Beyond Notions of Lack for First-in-Family Students.- 4. What Am I Waiting for? - Part II - 5. Trailblazing: Motivations and Relationship Impacts for First-in-Family Enabling Students.- 6. The Online Student Experience: New Challenges for Engagement and Support.- 7. 'So How Was Big School Today?' Family Perceptions of HE Participation.- 8. Parents Managing University and Family Life.- 9. Motivated Men: First-in-Family Male Students.- 10. 'Hey You! You've Got This and You Are Smart': Motivated Women Drawing on 'Sisu' to Persist and Succeed at University.- 11. Concluding Thoughts.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (314 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 378.198; First-generation college students; First-generation college students -- Family relationships; Educational sociology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031344510
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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