Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-In-Family Males

by Garth Stahl

Book Overview

This book explores how boys from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds disengage from their education, and are resultantly severely underrepresented in post-compulsory education. For those who attend university, many will be first-in-their-family. As first-in-family students, they may encounter significant barriers which may limit their participation in university life and their acquisition of social and cultural capital. Drawing on a longitudinal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031079566
• ISBN13: 9783031079566
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"