Gendering the First-In-Family Experience Transitions, Liminality, Performativity

First-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely underrepresented in higher education internationally. The book explores and analyses the gendered and classed subjectivities of 48 Australian students in the First-in-Family Project serving as a fresh perspective to the study of youth in transition.

About the author

Garth Stahl is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at the University of South Australia and Research Fellow, Australian Research Council (DECRA).

Summary

First-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely underrepresented in higher education internationally. The book explores and analyses the gendered and classed subjectivities of 48 Australian students in the First-in-Family Project serving as a fresh perspective to the study of youth in transition.

Product details

• Authors: Garth Stahl, Sarah Mcdonald, Garth (University of Queensland Stahl, Stahl Garth, McDonald Sarah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.01.2024
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system
• EAN: 9780367677923
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67792-3
• Pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Sports psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Education System, Young Men, independent schools, Vice Versa, social mobility research, higher education equity, mental health in academia, Girl Friend, Australian higher education, top girls, qualitative educational analysis, Low SES Background, gendered subjectivities, service sector labour, John Henryism, Working Class Young People, class disadvantage studies, Australian student transitions, gendered first-generation university experience, High Aspiring, Familial Habitus, Australian Higher Education Providers, Early Childhood Education Workers, Institutional Gender Norming, Co-creating Curriculum, Navigate University Life, Transformative Gender Practice, School’s Gender Regime, Pacific Islander Participants, Service Sector Work, Post-school Year