Motivations for Learning [electronic resource] : Voices of Women Welfare Reform Participants. NCAL Brief / Karen Reed Wikelund.

Twenty-seven female welfare recipients who had been forced to enroll in a career and life planning class or lose their welfare benefits were observed in class for 1 month in 1972. Five to 6 months after the class, 15 of the women were interviewed in informal small group and one-on-one conversations...

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