Doctoral Dissertation Research: Women Pursuing Higher Education After the 1996 Welfare Reform

博士论文研究：1996 年福利改革后女性追求高等教育

• 批准号: 0727624
• 负责人: Karen Campbell
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0727624&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Women; Pursuing

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Women Pursuing Higher Education After the 1996 Welfare ReformPrincipal Investigator: Karen CampbellCo-Principal Investigator: Sheila KatzVanderbilt UniversitySweeping changes to the national welfare system prioritized "work first" policies and decreased educational opportunities for mothers on welfare. The purpose of this study is to understand why some mothers still pursue education while on welfare as a route out of poverty although the opportunity for education decreased dramatically after welfare reform. The research questions this study will answer are (a) why do single mothers on TANF pursue higher educational programs?; (b) what are their narratives for choosing the higher educational route?; and (c) do the narratives of single mothers involved in an advocacy organization differ from those who are not? I will conduct interviews and focus groups with mothers on welfare who are currently enrolled or who have recently completed higher educational programs and a subset of this group who are involved with a specialized welfare and education advocacy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. The broader impacts of this study are that it can contribute to the national welfare reform debate by suggesting how welfare mothers might fare if education and job training programs were expanded. It can also inform the debate at the state level in California or in other states that are considering expanding education and job training programs by suggesting state level policies and resources that help or impede low-income women's progress in education and job training programs and in the local labor markets.

博士论文研究：1996年福利改革后追求高等教育的妇女主要研究员：凯伦坎贝尔共同主要研究员：希拉卡茨范德比尔特大学对国家福利制度的全面改革优先考虑“工作第一”的政策，减少了母亲接受福利教育的机会。 本研究的目的是了解为什么一些母亲仍然追求教育，而福利作为一种摆脱贫困的途径，虽然教育的机会急剧减少后，福利改革。这项研究将回答的研究问题是：（a）为什么参加TANF的单身母亲要接受高等教育？(b)他们选择高等教育道路的叙述是什么？以及（c）参加倡导组织的单身母亲的叙述与没有参加的单身母亲的叙述是否不同？我将与目前入学或最近完成高等教育课程的母亲以及参与旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区专门福利和教育倡导组织的这一群体的一部分进行访谈和焦点小组。这项研究的更广泛的影响是，它可以通过建议如果教育和职业培训计划得到扩大，福利母亲可能会如何发展，为国家福利改革辩论做出贡献。 它还可以为加州或其他正在考虑扩大教育和职业培训方案的州一级的辩论提供信息，建议州一级的政策和资源，帮助或阻碍低收入妇女在教育和职业培训方案以及当地劳动力市场中取得进展。