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'Mopping up Tears in the Academy' -- Working-Class Academics, Belonging, and the Necessity for Emotional Labour in UK Academia
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Rickett, Bridgette; Morris, Anna – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Previous research exploring how working-class women experience UK Higher Education (HE) work has made evident recurring themes around social segregation and corresponding difficulties with feeling they belong. This paper develops this work by exploring the ways in which UK, HE based working-class women lecturers talk about their sense of…
Descriptors: Working Class, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Higher Education
Taking, Begging, or Waiting for the Floor: Students' Social Backgrounds, Entitlement and Agency in Classroom Discourse
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Orner, Aviv; Netz, Hadar – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper presents an ethnographic study analyzing the influence of students' social backgrounds on students' entitlement and agency in relation to floor rights. Classroom interactions were video-recorded, and interviews were conducted in a socially diverse fifth-grade in Israel. Descriptive statistics and micro-analyses of participation patterns…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5
Class Dismissed: International Mobility, Doctoral Researchers, and (Roma) Ethnicity as a Proxy for Social Class?
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Roberts, Paul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
The interaction between doctoral education and social class is under-researched, yet is perceived to play an important part in securing social mobility. Research that does exist tends to focus on issues of access or transition, rather than considering experiences during the doctorate. This article focuses on doctoral students' experiences of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Class, Social Mobility, Doctoral Students
Parenting Priorities and Pressures: Furthering Understanding of "Concerted Cultivation"
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Vincent, Carol; Maxwell, Claire – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This paper re-examines the purposes of a planned and intentional parenting style--"concerted cultivation"--for different middle-class groups, highlighting that social class fraction, ethnicity, and also individual family disposition, guides understandings of the purposes of enrolling children in particular enrichment activities. We…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Aspiration, Middle Class, Social Class
Class, Capital, and Competing Academic Discourse: A Critical Analysis of the Mission/s of American Higher Education
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Stich, Amy Elizabeth; Reeves, Todd D. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
In this paper, we critically analyze institutional mission statements as discursive texts replete with symbolic meaning, as we believe these texts reveal a great deal about the ways in which higher education remains increasingly stratified. We argue that beneath the generalized rhetoric of institutional mission statements, lie powerful messages…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Position Papers, Higher Education, Social Class
Beyond the Global City: A Comparative Analysis of Cosmopolitanism in Middle-Class Educational Strategies in Australia and Brazil
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Windle, Joel; Maire, Quentin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
The global middle class (GMC) is a theoretical construct that seeks to globalise a set of attributes identified in studies of school choice in the global north, and to a lesser extent in developing nations in Asia. As theorised by Ball a mobile middle class with cosmopolitan sensibilities drives international education options in global cities.…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries