What is it about?
This paper explores the way part-time higher education students in a college developed their identities as students in relationship with their work identities. It compares different ways that work identities have been described and uses this to make sense of their accounts.
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Why is it important?
This article offers alternative perspectives to the way college higher education and its students are presented in much of the literature, in policy debate and in the media. Rather than characterising students as low-cost consumers, it seeks to locate them in their personal trajectories and in the objective conditions of contemporary employment relationships.
Perspectives
This article builds on an earlier account of part-time college HE students, placing it in the context of recent policy developments but also changes to economy and society. It does not seek to explore education independently of employment, as critical accounts of education often seek to, but recognises that the two are bound up together in contemporary society.
Dr Bill Esmond
University of Derby
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This page is a summary of: Part-time higher education in English colleges: Adult identities in diminishing spaces, Studies in the Education of Adults, March 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2015.11661672.
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