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Mukovhe Masutha; Rajani Naidoo; Jürgen Enders – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
Low completion rates amongst students from Black working-class backgrounds remain a persistent challenge to post-apartheid university transformation in South Africa. Notions of universities as colour-blind, meritocratic, and post-racial have developed around a deficit and victim-blaming majoritarian narrative that individualises educational…
Descriptors: College Students, Blacks, Working Class, College Faculty
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Anuradha Thittai Kumar; Òscar Prieto-Flores – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of college-age mentors in a school-based mentoring (SBM) program with the aim of understanding mentor perceptions of "power." Design/methodology/approach: Seventeen mentors, comprising both undergraduate (9) and graduate (8) students, participated in this exploratory…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Stanfill, Mel; Klean Zwilling, Jillian – College Teaching, 2023
In 2014, the popular conversation about safe space in the classroom tended to mock marginalized students seeking protection. Nearly a decade later, the discourse has become protectionist toward majority students allegedly discriminated against by being informed that they benefit from racism, sexism and heterosexism. What, then, does it mean to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Classroom Environment, School Safety, Minority Group Students
Elsa Cristina Carrillo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Women of Color (WOC)[superscript 1] comprise 20.3% of the U.S. population, and it is estimated by 2060, WOC will be the majority of all women in the United States (Catalyst, 2021). As this demographic shift continues, little research has focused on how WOC experience their place of work. This study examined factors affecting the experience of…
Descriptors: Leaders, Community Colleges, Females, Minority Groups
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Rachael Forester; Ryan A. Miller; Rachel Friedensen; Annemarie Vaccaro; Ezekiel W. Kimball – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
Whiteness is prevalent in higher education and therefore permeates science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. While research shows STEM's long history of exclusion and marginalization in higher education (Ong et al., 2011), there has been limited research on the ways students with minoritized identities of sexuality and/or…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity
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Scherer, Mary L. – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
Research suggests that class-privileged students value learning for its own sake and study the liberal arts, while working-class students believe college is a means to an end. However, recent studies indicate that these associations are weakening. This paper investigates the link between class background, college values, and curricular choices,…
Descriptors: College Students, Liberal Arts, Majors (Students), Working Class
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Hextrum, Kirsten – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
This study uses Bourdieusian (1977, 1978, 2011) approaches to reproduction to position athletic bureaucracies as legitimating institutions that convert capital. I examine how the cultural production of amateurism in U.S. college sports facilitates class reproduction by enabling a direct conversion between accrued economic, social, and physical…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, College Athletics, Athletes, Middle Class
van Stee, Elena G. – Grantee Submission, 2022
Objective: This article identifies how social class differences in undergraduates' relationships with their parents shaped their responses to educational disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Background: The mechanisms through which parents transmit class advantages to children are often hidden from view and therefore remain imperfectly…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Social Class, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19
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Phipps, Alison – Gender and Education, 2017
In the context of renewed debates and interest in this area, this paper reframes the theoretical agenda around laddish masculinities in UK higher education, and similar masculinities overseas. These can be contextualised within consumerist neoliberal rationalities, the neoconservative backlash against feminism and other social justice movements,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Sex Stereotypes, Neoliberalism
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Crozier, Gill; Burke, Penny Jane; Archer, Louise – Whiteness and Education, 2016
In spite of the relative success of the Widening Participation policy and strategies to increase the numbers of students from Black and Minority and White working-class backgrounds going to university, universities in Britain continue to be White and middle-class-dominated institutions. We found, in our two-year qualitative Higher Education…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Student Diversity, White Students, Middle Class
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Rollock, Nicola – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
It has been argued that racialised Others occupy a liminal space of alterity; a position at the edges of society from which their identities and experiences are constructed. Rather than being regarded as a place of disadvantage and degradation, it has been posited that those excluded from the centre can experience a "perspective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Race, Whites
Tindall, Barbara W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Few studies have looked at the consequences of standardized writing tests to students' understanding of what it means "to be" a competent writer. Using research techniques drawn from performance studies and art therapy, this qualitative study of middle class, honors students invited them to explore their understanding of what it means to…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Writing Tests, High Stakes Tests, Social Theories
Madland, David; Bunker, Nick – Center for American Progress, 2011
America's economic future depends in large part on the quality of the nation's public education. Education increases productivity, sparks innovation, and boosts the economic competitiveness. Not surprisingly, the American public thinks that there should be greater investments in education, with polls showing strong and growing support for…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Economic Opportunities, Role of Education, Economic Development
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Tenenbaum, Shelly; Ross, Robert J. S. – Teaching Sociology, 2006
At a small private liberal arts school such as Clark University, students are familiar with people from upper middle class backgrounds. Either they themselves are from upper middle class families or, if they are from working class or lower middle class backgrounds, they are acquainted with more affluent peers. Clark students have a clear image of…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Liberal Arts, Private Colleges, Working Class