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Direct linkJennifer Wallace; Jennifer Feldman – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2022
This chapter details two key aspects of the scholarship students' accounts of their experiences in the elite school context. Firstly, the chapter discusses the required adjustments the students felt that they needed to make to fit in by drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of developing a "practical sense" for the "game" of elite…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Working Class, Educational Experience, Boarding Schools
Peer reviewedMcLaren, Arlene Tigar – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Explores the tension felt by young Canadian women between the desire for domesticity and the aspiration for economic independence. This tension is exacerbated by the dual messages sent by societal institutions (primarily school and the media) as well as economic and social change. (MJP)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cultural Influences, Decision Making, Employment
