The author presents the problem of the importance of education, adult learning for the construction of their identity. To achieve that she analyses educational experiences of four different women - nontraditional students, who came from working-class families in the light of their biographies. In the study she discovers to what extent their current social and economical status determines the way of thinking about education and their learning process as limited to compensating for deficiencies and ‘attachment to their school desk’. In the methodological sense, the author shows a biographical study as an element which becomes a part of public discourse, not devoid of economical and political connotations.
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