Roma women's higher education participation: whose responsibility?. Issue 7 (3rd October 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Roma women's higher education participation: whose responsibility?. Issue 7 (3rd October 2018)
- Main Title:
- Roma women's higher education participation: whose responsibility?
- Authors:
- Hinton-Smith, Tamsin
Danvers, Emily
Jovanovic, Tanja - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: There are striking gaps between Roma and non-Roma higher education (HE) participation rates, with less than 1% of Roma possessing a tertiary-level qualification [United Nations Development Programme, World Bank and European Commission. 2011a. "The Situation of Roma in 11 EU Member States." Accessed 3 April 2015.http://issuu.com/undp_in_europe_cis/docs/_roma_at_a_glance_web/1#download ]. As the Decade of Roma Inclusion (2005–2015) closes, this renders the present a salient moment to reflect on Roma students' HE experiences. Widening educational access for marginalised groups raises specific questions about where responsibility for doing so lies – with tensions between individualised articulations of raising aspiration and notions of collective responsibility framed in a social justice agenda. Drawing on interviews with five Roma women students, this paper unpacks the contradictions between desiring access to HE for individual self-betterment and concurrent pulls towards educating for the wider benefit of 'improving' Roma communities. Using Ahmed's [2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life . Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press] work on institutional belonging, we explore the specifically gendered nature of these narratives in how 'doubly' marginalised bodies are positioned as outsiders, in receipt of an educational gift.
- Is Part Of:
- Gender and education. Volume 30:Issue 7(2018)
- Journal:
- Gender and education
- Issue:
- Volume 30:Issue 7(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 30, Issue 7 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0030-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 811
- Page End:
- 828
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10-03
- Subjects:
- Difference and diversity -- higher education -- equality -- migration -- femininities -- education policy
Sex discrimination in education -- Periodicals
Sex role -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals
Women -- Education -- Periodicals
Discrimination sexuelle en éducation -- Périodiques
Rôle selon le sexe -- Périodiques
Femmes -- Éducation -- Périodiques
379.26 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgee20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09540253.2016.1274386 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0954-0253
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- Legaldeposit
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