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100 1 $aWright, Hazel R.
245 10 $aWomen studying childcare :$bintegrating lives through adult education /$cHazel R Wright.
246 3 $aWoemn studying child care
246 3 $aWomen studying child care
260 $aStoke-on-Trent, UK ;$aSterling, Va :$bTrentham Books,$c2011.
300 $axiii, 179 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1 Introducing the research project -- ch. 2 Putting policy in perspective -- ch. 3 Committing to a career in childcare -- Occupational typologies -- Attitudinal typologies -- Taking an overview -- ch. 4 Making choices in real life -- Integrated lives theory -- Greedy institutions -- Cognitive dissonance -- Adaptive preference -- Reacting to social expectations -- Supporting the community -- Social capital -- Community ties -- Friendship ties -- Social meshing -- Capability approach -- Identifying capability indicators -- Creating capability chains -- Taking an overview -- ch. 5 Recalling experiences and expectations -- Past personal experiences -- Exceptional problems -- Failures of the system -- Embedded family values -- Class issues -- Gender issues -- Cultural issues -- Maternal identity -- Vocational reasons for working in childcare -- Income -- Altruism -- Wanting to work with children -- Not planning a career -- Drifting into employment -- Convenience --
505 0 $aEducational perspectives -- Vocational aims -- Functional skills and relevance -- Liberal views -- ch. 6 Examining educational practices -- Personal coping strategies -- Becoming a student -- Forming groups -- Finding a friend -- Patterns of studying -- Family support -- Workplace issues -- Fuzzy work/life boundaries -- Excessive hours and paperwork -- Extended opening -- Handling change -- Problems in the workplace -- Committees -- educational context -- Addressing barriers to education -- Approaches to assignments -- Views on course structures -- Learning and teaching preferences -- ch. 7 Considering the consequences of studying -- Individual gains -- Social gains -- Effects on family -- Vocational adjustments -- Stepping up -- Inching forward -- Seeking better conditions in schools -- Focusing frustration -- Educational impacts -- Residual learning -- Learning processes -- Further study -- Too much too soon -- Integrated lives --
505 0 $ach. 8 Meeting women's needs: heeding women's strengths -- Revisiting the strands -- Reviewing the links -- Considering gender -- Extending integrated lives theory -- Transition and growth -- Living in a slowly shifting present -- Conceptualising instability -- Living at the micro-level -- Considering policy implications -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 triple triangle maintaining integrated lives -- Figure 2 Integrated lives strengthened by community ties -- List of Tables -- Table 1 Taxonomy of typologies -- Table 2 Capability indicators.
520 $a"Most studies of adult education align it with life change, but this research-based book tells a different story. It reveals how mature women who are training to work in childcare within the voluntary sector seek continuity in their lives. They engage with activities that connect aspects of their family, workplace and educational experience, and thus construct a sense of personal identity through these linkages. Drawing on data from 150 students enrolled over ten years on a diploma course in an FE college, Hazel Wright uses the women's biographical narratives to capture new theoretical perspectives on educational and life-choices. Her study, which links to Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, reveals how a vocational course embracing broad liberal goals contributes to the realisation of various unplanned social benefits within the students' local communities. We gain insights into their needs and wants and see how their strengths and choices create stability in their lives. Opening with an informative historical overview, the book concludes with a concept catalogue of the ideas borrowed from sociology, psychology and economics used in education books. Women Studying Childcare's lively theoretical analysis and wealth of narrative detail are relevant to early years' practitioners and to women students. For educational providers and childcare employers it offers insights that will support the recruitment and retention of mature students and staff."--Publisher's website.
650 0 $aAdult education of women.
650 0 $aChild care.
650 0 $aChild care workers$xTraining of.
650 0 $aWorking mothers.
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988 $a20110901
906 $0OCLC