“从一开始就是一场艰苦的战斗”:新冠肺炎大流行期间在英国大学学习的单身父母的经历

IF 2.3 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Lucy Trotter
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摘要单亲家庭在英国所有家庭中占很大比例,但文献表明,他们在接受、参与和完成高等教育方面面临挑战。本文利用2021年对单亲学生进行的为期三个月的混合方法研究获得的数据,探讨在新冠肺炎大流行的背景下,作为单亲学生在英国大学学习的意义。在这样做的过程中,它考虑了疫情对单亲学生的个人要求,以及在英国高等教育系统的背景下,单亲学生可以获得的支持途径。然后在理论框架内对这些问题进行分析,认为单亲学生在高等教育背景下同时占据代理和掌握的地位。文章最后提出了三个关键的变革建议:(1)大学应该收集学生家长的数据,并利用这些数据通过学生支持服务提供量身定制的支持;(2) 大学应与学生会合作,确保有利于家长的新生活动和持续的学生家长社会/支持团体;(3)大学应对校园空间进行具体改变,包括在校园内引入无障碍、灵活、折扣的托儿服务、母婴室和婴儿更衣设施。这三项变化将显著改善在英国大学学习的单亲学生的体验。
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‘It has been an uphill battle from the get go’: The experiences of single parents studying at university in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic
ABSTRACT Single-parent families represent a significant proportion of all UK families, but literature suggests that they face challenges in accessing, participating in, and completing Higher Education (HE). This article draws on data obtained from three months of mixed-methods research in 2021 with single-parent students to explore the meanings of being a single parent studying at university in the UK in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so it considers the personal demands that the pandemic placed on single-parent students, and the avenues of support available for single-parent students in the context of the UK HE system. These issues are then analysed within a theoretical framework to argue that single-parent students occupied a simultaneous position of agency and mastery in the context of HE. The article concludes with three key recommendations for change: (1) Universities should collect data on student parents and use this data to enable tailored support via student support services; (2) Universities should work with Student Unions to ensure parent-friendly freshers activities and ongoing social/support groups for student parents; and (3) Universities should make concrete changes to campus space, including the introduction of accessible, flexible, discounted childcare on campus, parent and baby rooms, and baby-changing facilities. These three changes would significantly improve the experiences of single-parent students studying at university in the UK.
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JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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5.20
自引率
4.30%
发文量
80
期刊介绍: Journal of Further and Higher Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly work that represents the whole field of post-16 education and training. The journal engages with a diverse range of topics within the field including management and administration, teacher education and training, curriculum, staff and institutional development, and teaching and learning strategies and processes. Through encouraging engagement with and around policy, contemporary pedagogic issues and professional concerns within different educational systems around the globe, Journal of Further and Higher Education is committed to promoting excellence by providing a forum for scholarly debate and evaluation. Articles that are accepted for publication probe and offer original insights in an accessible, succinct style, and debate and critique practice, research, theory. They offer informed perspectives on contextual and professional matters and critically examine the relationship between theory and practice across the spectrum of further and higher education.
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