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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
Maybe One in a Hundred or One in a Thousand in the Neoliberal, New-Managerial University! Aesthetics of Experience and the Question of Transgressive Critical Thinking
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Beach, Dennis – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Trangression is an act of challenging boundaries that separate apparently distinct oppositional categories objects. Examples are categories such as such as civilised/primitive, male/female, master/servant, Lordship/bondage. The article deals with such transgressions related to the evolution of class consciousness transgressive critical thinking.…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Critical Thinking, Neoliberalism, Social Class
Working-Class High School Learners' Challenge to Change: Insights from the "Equal Education" Movement in South Africa
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Robins, Steven Lance; Fleisch, Brahm – Education as Change, 2016
Hargreaves (2002) suggested that vigorous social movements have the potential to improve the quality of (and increase the equity in) public education. This paper explores the role of Equal Education, an education social movement in South Africa led by university students and secondary school learners, in the process of educational change. Drawing…
Descriptors: Working Class, Educational Change, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Radcliffe College: A Historical Study. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Jennifer O'Connor Duffy – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
In 2006, this dissertation research project explored the experiences of working-class students in elite higher education at Radcliffe College during the years 1940-1970. By conducting a secondary statistical analysis of the "1977 Radcliffe Centennial Survey" (a comprehensive questionnaire of the life experiences of alumnae) and a…
Descriptors: College Students, Alumni, Educational History, Working Class
Innovations in Learning and Development: A Case from the Arab World
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Al-Khatib, Hyat – Journal of Learning for Development, 2014
The twenty-first century is witnessing innovative practices in the advancement of learning in the developed world as a consequence of the technological revolution of the period and the increased demand for higher education (Bax, 2011; Barab, King and Gray, 2004; Roman, 2001). Education is perceived as the cornerstone for development,…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Developing Nations, Arabs, Open Education
Facilitating Transitions to College for Students with Disabilities from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds
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Oesterreich, Heather A.; Knight, Michelle G. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2008
The overrepresentation of working-class African American, Latino/Latina, and Native American students in special education has been well documented and the implications that are raised for identification and intake of students with disabilities have been the focus of special education reform for many years. Even as schools have worked to change…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Educational Attainment, College Attendance, Disproportionate Representation