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Direct linkRandi Gray Kristensen – Community Literacy Journal, 2023
In the summer of 1978, at Church Teachers' College in Mandeville, Jamaica, a class of advanced students participating in the Jamaica Movement for the Advancement of Literacy (JAMAL) wrote, cast, rehearsed, and performed a play that satirized several major institutions--the family, the church, and the business sector--as well as class and gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, College Students, Decolonization
Johnston, Craig; Bradford, Simon – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
This article draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The article explores aspects of men's experiences and responses to so-called 'active learning'. It considers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Males, Working Class
Walkerdine, Valerie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Drawing on my own experience as a working-class academic, as well of that of working-class students in the present, I discuss how the experience for working-class students in elite universities still includes many aspects of classism, even when those students can, and do, do very well indeed and even when policies are apparently in place to…
Descriptors: Working Class, Colleges, Selective Admission, Social Class
Liu, Ruo-Fan – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
Students attain cultural knowledge to navigate college admissions, yet few studies investigate when and how students activate this knowledge in a relatively transparent system. Drawing upon 26 Taiwanese student interviews, this study unveils how students strategically use available information to illuminate each step of the admission process. I…
Descriptors: College Admission, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Ricardo Marmolejo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational equity programs have been created to provide opportunities and resources for upward social mobility to low-SES individuals and students, students of color, historically marginalized students, and first-generation college students. This research study focused on educational equity programs recognized as the federally funded TRIO…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Socioeconomic Status, STEM Education
Download full textRodriguez, Ginger G.; Buczinsky, Christopher – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
How do you teach the humanities to working class students living in the shadow of a BP oil refinery? Calumet College uses freshman learning communities that link humanities, social justice, and English composition classes to provide a foundation for college success to predominantly first-generation students who are often underprepared for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Needs, Humanities, Working Class
Tamim, Tayyaba – Gender and Education, 2013
This paper is based on the findings of a 3-year, qualitative study funded by the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes for Poverty. It uses Sen's [1985. "Well-being agency and freedom." "Journal of Philosophy" 82, no. 4: 169-221] capability approach and Bourdieu's [1991. "Language and symbolic power." Cambridge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Females
