'It's Quite Difficult Letting Them Go, Isn't It?' UK Parents' Experiences of Their Child's Higher Education Choice Process

Autor/inn/en	Haywood, Helen; Scullion, Richard
Titel	'It's Quite Difficult Letting Them Go, Isn't It?' UK Parents' Experiences of Their Child's Higher Education Choice Process
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 43 (2018) 12, S.2161-2175 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2017.1315084
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Choice; Parent Attitudes; Parent Student Relationship; Experience; Conflict; Teamwork; Child Rearing; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studienortwahl; Elternverhalten; Erfahrung; Konflikt; Kindererziehung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper challenges the dominant discourse that Higher Education (HE) choice is a consumer choice and questions assumptions underpinning government policy and HE marketing. HE choice is largely viewed as a rational, decontextualised process. However, this interpretivist study found it to be much more complex, and to be about relationships and managing a transition in roles. It focuses on parents, an under-researched group, who play an increasing part in their child's HE choice. It finds that they experience this process primarily as parents, not consumers and that their desire to maintain the relationship at this critical juncture takes precedence over the choice of particular courses and universities. The role of relationships, and in this context relationship maintenance, is the main theme. This is experienced in two principal ways: relationship maintenance through conflict avoidance and through teamwork. These significant findings have implications for the way governments and universities consider recruitment. (As Provided).
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