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Lifelong Learning and the 'Breadwinner Ideology': Addressing the problems of lack of participation by adult, working-class males in higher education on Merseyside

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Abigail Marks

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Abstract

This paper considers the cultural and economic positions of working-class men in the specific context of Merseyside, their attitudes towards education (taking into account, amongst other things their assumed 'breadwinner' role and its pertinence within the prevalent regional context of 'living off one's wits') and the effects on their levels of participation in higher education. Drawing upon recent research into mature students in British universities, the paper suggests that universities themselves need to change if they are to offer an image and environment that will appeal to the adult working class, and in particular the adult working-class male (who on paper have the most to benefit from lifelong learning) and, significantly, the universities must reassess their 'community' role, and begin to think of themselves in terms of their 'local' remit.

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Author(s): Marks A

Publication type: Review

Publication status: Published

Journal: Educational Studies

Year: 2000

Volume: 26

Issue: 3

Pages: 303-319

Online publication date: 01/07/2010

ISSN (print): 0305-5698

ISSN (electronic): 1465-3400

Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03055690050137123

DOI: 10.1080/03055690050137123

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