Navigating student motherhood in a precarious urban context: Perspectives from higher education in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorKakuru, Doris M.
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-14T21:36:06Z
dc.date.available2024-11-14T21:36:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports findings of a study on young mothers living in Uganda's poor urban areas which have been politically labeled as informal settlements and therefore not eligible for social services delivery. Although 59% of all school dropouts in Uganda are due to young motherhood, the national education policy, and practice automatically exclude young mothers. Past studies on student motherhood addressed student mothers of all ages, and were not focused on poor urban communities. The qualitative study involved young female participants enrolled in institutions of higher learning aged, between the 17 and 25 and investigated the magnitude of their marginalization and exclusion. Study participants were purposively selected using snowball technique. Data were collected using life history interviews and observation. All interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded, and thematic analysis was done. The key themes are the context of urban poverty and student motherhood, lack of counseling services, poor law enforcement, and abandonment. The paper discusses how the young women navigate motherhood and education, thereby advancing the discourse on student motherhood in precarious educational contexts of urban poverty.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The study was funded by International Child Development Initiatives.
dc.identifier.citationKakuru, D. M. (2021). Navigating student motherhood in a precarious urban context: Perspectives from higher education in Uganda. Education and Urban Society, 54(6), 731–749. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131245211027549
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/00131245211027549
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/20784
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEducation in Urban Society
dc.rightsAttribution CC BY
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.titleNavigating student motherhood in a precarious urban context: Perspectives from higher education in Uganda
dc.typeArticle

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