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Innovative Narrative Life History Interviews: The Construction of Academic Giftedness in Family Context. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Laura Mazzoli Smith – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study is based on my PhD research, completed in 2010, in which I explored how families from broadly working class backgrounds constructed and understood the fact that a child of theirs had been labelled 'gifted and talented' at school. I wanted to understand this in relation to their views on giftedness and alongside their own…
Descriptors: Working Class, Academically Gifted, Family Environment, Context Effect
A Theoretical Concept of Educational Upward Mobility
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Kupfer, Antonia – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2012
This paper's topic is the educational upward mobility of members of the working class. It seeks to find out what makes educational success possible and aims to build a theory of educational upward mobility. Data have been collected through biographical-narrative interviews of Austrian graduates from working-class backgrounds. Their narratives have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Working Class, Human Capital
"I'm a Geek I Am": Academic Achievement and the Performance of a Studious Working-Class Masculinity
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Ward, Michael R. M. – Gender and Education, 2014
During the last few decades, the South Wales Valleys (UK) have undergone a considerable economic, social, cultural and political transformation, altering youth transitions from school to work. Drawing on a two and a half year ethnographic study, in the paper I concentrate on a group of academically successful young white working-class men aged…
Descriptors: Working Class, Masculinity, Ethnography, Whites