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Peer reviewedCox, Roger; Pascall, Gillian – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1994
Interviews with 43 mature women students were followed 10 years later by interviews with 23 of them. The experience of education provided them a means of self-evaluation. Most worked in teaching, social work, or the public sector, which reduced potential dilemmas about self-perception and enabled an expressive rather than an instrumental view of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Students, Females, Individual Development
