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Elaine Keane – Educational Review, 2025
This paper is about social class and the teaching profession. While class has long been a core focus in the Sociology of Education, little attention has been paid to how it is conceived and enacted in the context of the professions, including teaching. While research in the area is increasing, we know relatively little about "the daily class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Student Teachers, Performance
Pun, Ngai; Hui, Bryant P. H.; Koo, Anita – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
Despite the large number of working-class students having to work while attending schools, their work experience and the potential of class solidarity have been largely unaddressed. By bringing in a social psychological perspective, this article revives the sociological debates of working-class solidarity and challenges the defeatist view of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Working Class, Prosocial Behavior
Maree Martinussen; Dianne Mulcahy – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Past decades have seen increased emphasis on graduate employability as a driver of higher education policy. In the Australian context, employability discourses in the public domain have become inflected with anti-intellectual sentiment, serving to reproduce the perception that the humanities and social sciences are of less value to graduates'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Employment Potential, Social Class, Working Class
Katherine Davey – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Based on the life and educational histories of sixteen high-achieving, working-class girls applying to high-tariff universities, this paper rekindles debates about the role of agency within the decision-making process of young people who might not otherwise be expected to apply to such institutions. It draws on Margaret Archer's theorising to…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Working Class, Females, College Choice
J. Fabian Cabaluz – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The Bolivian Marxist René Zavaleta (1937-1984) is considered Bolivia's most notable political thinker of the 20th century, an eminent figure in Latin American Marxism, since he produced critical thought anchored in the concrete history of our societies, and developed a set of theoretical and conceptual approaches relevant to understanding the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Critical Theory
Sarah McDonald; Garth Stahl – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Despite efforts to foster a more equitable gender representation, Australia's higher education sector and workforce continue to be highly segregated. This article focusses on the gendered experiences of first-in-family (FIF) students--many who are from low-socioeconomic communities--transitioning to Australian universities. In terms of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Sex Role, Decision Making
Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Stefansen, Kari – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
This paper explores youth sports parenting in the context of Norway, focusing on the orientations of parents living in predominantly working-class communities, specifically what they believe youth sports are for. Its particular focus is the ideas and resources that underpin the various positions parents in such communities take toward youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Working Class, Parent Attitudes
Jessie A. Bustillos Morales – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2025
Affect and habitus are used in the paper to harness the intermingling of race and class in the young people's everyday identity practices at school, as they aspire to embody 'Black excellence'. This paper draws on ethnographic data collected with working-class Black-British young people aged between 16 and 18. Through the careful management of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Blacks, Working Class, Educational Experience
Emilia Fakou – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
This text aims to demonstrate the contribution of working-class mothers to supporting their children at school and the social factors that determine the effectiveness of the practices these mothers adopt in their efforts. The mothers' involvement in education is a complex and demanding work. It entails practices directly related to schooling, such…
Descriptors: Working Class, Mothers, Parent Role, Social Influences
Yu, Kaidong – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper examines the history of the expansion of educational opportunities in the UK, to understand how different generations of working-class students managed to access HE. Based on 23 life-story interviews with working-class students, the study highlights how the changing dynamics of the structure of compulsory education and the labour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Students, Access to Education
Javier Corredor; María José Álvarez-Rivadulla – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This article presents the results of two projects exploring the experiences of working-class students in elite colleges. The first project is a nation-wide study that included 19 focus groups with 183 program participants of a condonable loan program, and additional interviews and focus groups with non-scholarship students, professors and…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Individual Differences, Classroom Environment, Colleges
Gareth Burns; Niamh Bird; Katriona O'Sullivan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Precipitated by a recent policy focus on diversifying Ireland's homogeneous teaching profession, there is an emerging research base focused on the experiences of teachers from under-represented groups. However, the life stories of teachers from lower socio-economic groups remain underexplored. Responsive to the mostly atheoretical nature of…
Descriptors: Working Class, Teacher Background, Career Development, Resilience (Psychology)
Mulcahy, Dianne; Martinussen, Maree – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
This article explores the role of affect in addressing the advantage conventionally accorded to high socio-economic status (SES) in higher education (HE) and how this advantage plays out for students from low SES backgrounds. Positioned as the 'other' to an assumed norm, the capacities of these students can be considered the 'wrong' capacities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Students
Smyth, Emer – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
The way in which young people's post-school intentions and pathways reflect their social background has been the subject of a good deal of research. However, much less attention has been paid to social differentiation in the amount and kind of career guidance information received by young people and its role in reinforcing or ameliorating social…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Higher Education, Intention
Pring, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
This article sifts the historical and philosophical soil out of which the comprehensive ideal in education has sprung. England's national school system emerged in the nineteenth century imbued with ruling-class assumptions about the education required for each supposed type of child destined to take his or her place in one of the three broad…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Comprehensive Programs, Foreign Countries