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Struggles for Empowerment
Higher Education Stories from East and West
Paperback
April 2019
9781858568966
More details
- Publisher
Trentham Books - Published
8th April 2019 - ISBN 9781858568966
- Language English
- Pages 154 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
$32.95
Worldwide, access to higher education is still a privilege. This unique volume recounts the experiences of students from two rural provinces – one in Pakistan, one in the Republic of Ireland – who have struggled to undertake graduate studies. Seeking to understand why some are able to persevere with studies against enormous odds, the authors draw on Bourdieu’s theories of social and cultural capital, habitus, field and symbolic violence to analyze the students’ very personal narratives. Their study reveals that, while these two provinces may appear on the surface to be entirely disparate, profound social and economic inequality in each leads mature students in Sindh and Connaught to experience similar obstacles – although these are surmounted in different ways.
"This book is a valuable companion to all who wish to undertake ethnographic research with participants whose lives are generally concealed from view. Why are their lives hidden?"
From the Foreword by Eve Gregory, Professor Emerita, Goldsmiths, University of London
"<i>Struggles for Empowerment</i> offers a thoughtful and original exploration of the relationship between inequalities and higher education through the lenses of Ireland and the region of Sindh in Pakistan. The authors do not seek to compare those two very different contexts but they instead join forces to produce a highly reflective account of their respective research journeys. They consider their engagement with theory and methodology and their common goal to make the voice of their participants heard, telling us stories not only about the persistence of gender and class inequalities but also about the potential of higher education to act as a driver of empowerment."
Vincent Carpentier, Reader in the History of Education, UCL Institute of Education
Prologue
PART 1: FAMILY AND SOCIETY
1. Sindh, Pakistan: The people within their context, by Ambreen Shahriar
2. Ireland and education in context, by Teresa Bruen
PART 2: OUR TRAJECTORIES
3. How my journey through Pakistan began, by Ambreen Shahriar
4. How my own journey began, by Teresa Bruen
PART 3: GIVING VOICE TO THE UNHEARD
5. Making a better life: The voices from rural Sindh, by Ambreen Shahriar
6. Striving for improvement: Hearing the voices of mature students, by Teresa Bruen
PART 4: TOWARDS EMANCIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT
7. Understanding the stories from Sindh, by Ambreen Shahriar
8. Interpreting the stories from rural Ireland, by Teresa Bruen
References
Index
Ambreen Shahriar
Dr. Ambreen Shahriar is an Associate Professor at the University of Sindh, Hyderabad.
Teresa Bruen
Dr. Teresa Bruen is a Lecturer at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, in the Department of Nursing, Health Care and Social Science.