Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-Family Males

This book explores how boys from low—socioeconomic status backgrounds disengage from their education, and are resultantly severely underrepresented in post—compulsory education. For those who attend university, many will be first—in—their—family. As first—in—family students, they may encounter significant barriers which may limit their participation in university life and their acquisition of social and cultural capital. Drawing on a longitudinal study of young Australian men pursuing highe...