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Direct linkViola Nilah Nyakato; Elizabeth Kemigisha; Faith Mugabi; Shakillah Namatovu; Kristien Michielsen; Susan Kools – Gender and Education, 2024
Early marriage and pregnancy hinder global commitment to attain gender parity in education. This article discusses educational challenges experienced by parenting college students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. The study qualitatively assessed the effects of COVID-19 on the National Teacher Colleges' learning environment. On the reopening…
Descriptors: Pregnant Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers
Angela La'Tonya Browder – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Barriers that exist to the academic persistence of single mothers in higher education is the topic of this study. The purpose of this case study was to examine the perceptions of time, finance and resources that single mothers face in college-level courses that can affect their persistence. The theoretical frameworks used were self-determination…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Unwed Mothers, Nontraditional Students, Student Needs
Chase, Elizabeth – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This article examines the literature on schooling for teenage mothers in order to expose the normalizing discourses that position young mothers as at risk for failure. Through an exploration of the historical and socio-cultural positioning of teenage mothers over the past few decades, the author illustrates the schooled responses to adolescent…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Adolescents, Pregnancy, At Risk Students
Download full textMukuna, Robert Kananga; Aloka, Peter J. O. – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
The phenomenon of teenage motherhood is a major concern worldwide. The teenage mothers endure many challenges that could affect their academic goals and successes if there is insufficient support. However, some teenage mothers manage to develop certain forms of flexibility to manage these adversities. This study explored the teenage mothers'…
Descriptors: Unwed Mothers, Pregnancy, Pregnant Students, High School Students
Robinson, Katja – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lifeworlds of low-income, single student mothers in two contrasting welfare regimes, the United States and Germany, to understand how their individual experiences as students and as mothers at the micro-level were shaped by policies regarding childcare and financial support at the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Foreign Countries, Unwed Mothers, Child Care
Watson, Linnea Lynne; Vogel, Linda R. – Cogent Education, 2017
While recent research has shown the long-term effects of teen pregnancy are not as devastating as once predicted, more than 40 years after the passage of Title IX legislation mandating equal educational opportunities for pregnant and parenting teens, only 50% of teen parents graduate high school, lagging far behind their non-parenting peers. This…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Pregnancy, Pregnant Students, Adolescents
