Polakow / Butler / Deprez Shut Out

Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8497-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polakow, Valerie

Butler, Sandra S.

Deprez, Luisa Stormer

Kahn, Peggy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Peggy Kahn, Sandra S. Butler, Luisa Stormer Deprez, and Valerie Polakow
1. Debunking the Myth of the Failure of Education and Training for Welfare Recipients: A Critique of the Research
Erika Kates
2. Failing Low Income Students: Education and Training in the Age of Welfare Reform
Lizzy Ratner
3. "That's Not How I Want to Live": Student Mothers Fight to Stay in School under Michigan's Welfare-to-Work Regime
Peggy Kahn and Valerie Polakow
4. Connecting and Reconnecting to Work: Low Income Mothers' Participation in Publicly Funded Training Programs
Frances J. Riemer
5. Supporting or Blocking Educational Progress? The Impact of College Policies, Programs, and Practices on Low Income Single Mothers
Sally Sharp
6. Student Financial Aid and Low Income Mothers
Donald E. Heller and Stefani A. Bjorklund 7. Credentials Count: How California's Community Colleges Help Parents Move from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency
Anita K. Mathur with Judy Reichle, Julie Strawn, and Chuck Wiseley
8. "This Little Light of Mine": Parent Activists Struggling for Access to Post-Secondary Education in Appalachian Kentucky
Christiana Miewald
9. College Access and Leadership-Building for Low Income Women: Boston's Women in Community Development (WICD)
Deborah Clarke and Lynn Peterson
10. Transcending Welfare: Creating a GI Bill for Working Families
Julie L. Watts and Aiko Schaefer
11. Securing Higher Education for Women on Welfare in Maine
Luisa Stormer Deprez, Sandra S. Butler, and Rebekah J. Smith
Afterword
The Editors List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

At Eastern Michigan University, Valerie Polakow is Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Child and Family Programs at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Communities. Sandra S. Butler is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Maine and Resident Scholar at the University of Maine Center on Aging. Luisa Stormer Deprez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern Maine.