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Direct linkWalkerdine, 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
Peer reviewedBiggart, Andy; Furlong, Andy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Examines the changing social character of upper secondary schools (noncompulsory education, generally regarded as a stepping stone to university) in England. Previously, upper secondary students tended to be academic high achievers, however, a shrinking job market has created an influx of working class youth. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Alienation
