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Masculinity, Subjectivity and Neoliberalism in Men's Accounts of Migration and Higher Educational Participation
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Burke, Penny Jane – Gender and Education, 2011
In this article, I explore men's educational experiences and aspirations in the context of UK policy discourses of widening participation and migration. Critiquing discourses that oversimplify gendered access to higher education, I develop an analysis of the impact of masculine subjectivities on processes of subjective construction in relation to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Migration, Educational Experience, Males
Men Accessing Education: Masculinities, Class and Choice
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Woodin, Tom; Burke, Penny Jane – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
This paper draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project on men (aged 18-54) participating in pre-university access and foundation programs in four London further and higher education colleges. Men's educational choices and decisions are analysed and discussed within current policy debates about widening…
Descriptors: Working Class, Middle Class, Foundation Programs, Lifelong Learning
Men Accessing Education: Gendered Aspirations
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Burke, Penny Jane – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
Raising aspirations has been identified as a key strategy for widening educational participation in lifelong learning policy. This article deconstructs the hegemonic discourse of raising aspirations through Economic and Social Research Council-funded research on men, masculinities and higher educational access and participation.The article…
Descriptors: Males, Lifelong Learning, Academic Aspiration, Higher Education