Rising educational inequality is considered as one pressing social problem in many national education systems. There is limited existing literature that examines how youth from different social backgrounds perceive and consider social inequalities and "justice." This study addresses this research gap by probing the perspectives of…

This case study builds on Bourdieu's theory of practice to explore the ways in which two rural lower-class EFL learners--Andy and Xu--developed contrasting digital literacy trajectories in non-instructional and naturalistic settings. This study also seeks to examine how different online literacy trajectories impact rural lower-class students'…

This qualitative case study examines whether the social ideologies of secondary school teachers about the future employment prospects of their Mexican American working-class students influence the pedagogies they deploy in their own classrooms. Drawing from social reproduction theory and earlier studies that have addressed social stratification…