ERIC Number: EJ1029109
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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School Exclusion and Educational Inclusion of Pregnant Young Women
Rudoe, Naomi
Ethnography and Education, v9 n1 p66-80 2014
This article analyses the school exclusion and subsequent educational inclusion of pregnant young women participating in a course of antenatal and key skills education at an alternative educational setting. It examines the young women's transitions from "failure" in school to "success" in motherhood and re-engagement with education. This article draws on participant observation- and interview-based research carried out with pregnant young women and staff at an alternative educational setting in London in 2007-2008. The young women's participation in the course represented a severing of past negative experiences in mainstream education, allowing a renewed focus on education alongside a positive maternal identity. The setting represented a form of inclusion, and the young women appreciated the focus on their social and emotional well-being, yet the limited academic provision in some cases continued to reinforce an educational exclusion.
Descriptors: Pregnant Students, Pregnancy, Academic Failure, Mothers, Reentry Students, Continuation Students, Participant Observation, Womens Studies, Womens Education, Young Adults, Nontraditional Education, Inclusion, Vocational Education, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Experience, Ethnography, Phenomenology, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (London)
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