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Scholes, Laura – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This paper considers whether societal changes are making space for some working-class boys to go against the grain and foster positive reader identities. Drawing on interviews with 30 Australian boys about their experiences at school, Nancy Fraser's social justice framework is used to explore their parity of participation as readers. Responses…
Descriptors: Males, Social Justice, Reading Instruction, Identification (Psychology)
Dee Michell; Heather Fraser – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case explores the use of feminist memory work with working-class women social science students, who narrated and interpreted what helped and hindered them to study at university. Gender and class sensitive, this method involves participants writing stories and then narrating them to other group members who collectively analyze the body of…
Descriptors: Working Class, Females, Social Sciences, Time to Degree
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Christodoulou, Michael; Spyridakis, Manos – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
Habitus dislocation is a much debatable term. By presenting life-histories of working-class adolescents, this article argues (i) that not all upwardly mobile working-class adolescents experience habitus dislocation and, (ii) that habitus dislocation has its roots in the self-initiated ruptures that face some of those who want to be upwardly mobile…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Social Mobility, Working Class
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Tett, Lyn – Gender and Education, 2000
Examined the gendered experiences of 18 working-class participants in higher education through the analysis of interviews related to schooling, later learning, students' views of higher education, and attitudes toward being working class. Findings emphasize the construction of masculine and feminine identities and the mediating effects of gender…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues