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'She's like, "you're a uni student now"': the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the constructions of learner identities of first-in-family girls

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dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, S.
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explores how two first-in-family young women from the southern suburbs of Adelaide, Australia incorporate the classed and gendered experiences of their mothers into their subjectivities as they transition from secondary school into their first year of university. Research has documented how the ‘successful’ working-class university experience often requires students to undergo substantial identity work to guard against feeling socially dislocated and excluded. However, these findings tend to discuss the work that happens within educational spaces which are viewed as transformative and do not document the aspects of identity work that takes place within the familial structure. The analysis in this chapter is focused on comparing the case studies of two young women, Chloe and Ella, who are the first in their family to attend university. Central to the analysis is an exploration of how mother–daughter relationships influence the construction of learner identities and university transitions including the ways these relationships contribute to how young women make sense of their subjective and social positionings as they transition into ‘becoming’ university students.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Reimagining the Higher Education Student: Constructing and Contesting Identities, 2021, Ch.3, pp.27-44
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780367854171-3
dc.identifier.isbn9780367426514
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/146852
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUS
dc.rightsCopyright 2021 selection and editorial matter, Rachel Brooks and Sarah O’Shea; individual chapters, the contributors Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available after 1 April 2022
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780367854171-3
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subjectlow socio-economic status (SES)
dc.subjectuniversity
dc.subjectmother-daughter relationships
dc.title'She's like, "you're a uni student now"': the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the constructions of learner identities of first-in-family girls
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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