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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
Haltia, Nina; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; Mutanen, Heli – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Previous studies have associated participation in higher education with the formation of middle-class advantages. Studies have shown that graduates from affluent family backgrounds gain more advantages from graduate degrees and secure better job opportunities than their less privileged counterparts. Drawing on the Bourdieusian framework, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Cultural Capital
John Gabriel; Jennifer Harding – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a local charity and older residents in a community oral history project. It is based on participants' oral and written accounts of their involvement. It critically examines the meanings of public, engagement and public good created through the project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Working Class, Oral History
Dan O'Sullivan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2023
This article investigates the career paths of learners who attended Youthreach education centres. Youthreach originated in 1989 as an alternative pathway for early school learners experiencing disadvantage. Youthreach is an underresearched sector of the education system, even less is known about the career progression of Youthreach graduates. This…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Career Pathways, Foreign Countries, Youth Programs
Anne Sofie Borsch; An Verelst; Signe Smith Jervelund; Ilse Derluyn; Morten Skovdal – Pastoral Care in Education, 2024
There is growing interest in the role of schools in supporting children facing adversity, including children with refugee and immigrant backgrounds. Based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork (December 2018 to June 2019) and interviews with teachers in two classes for adolescent newcomer refugee and immigrant learners in Denmark, this paper…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Foreign Countries, School Role
Fernando Guzmán-Simón; Alejandra Pacheco-Costa – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
The more-than-human turn in early childhood education has highlighted the relevance of children's intra-actions with their environment, as well as the multiple ways in which worlds and literacies emerge in them. The rejection of representationalism as the single source of knowledge leads to the consideration of affect, embodiment, memories, sound…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Children, Spanish
Rashné R. Jehangir; Kelly Collins; Terra Molengraff – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
This study examines how first-generation (FG) college students make meaning of their social class during their first-year of college. As a method, photovoice allowed for the creation of a rich set of data using student photos and accompanying narratives, through which three key themes were derived: (a) broken American dream, (b) honoring family…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Working Class, Low Income Students, Poverty
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
Ian Lundberg – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Disparities across race, gender, and class are important targets of descriptive research. But rather than only describe disparities, research would ideally inform interventions to close those gaps. The gap-closing estimand quantifies how much a gap (e.g., incomes by race) would close if we intervened to equalize a treatment (e.g., access to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Mun Yuk Chin; Jay Jeffries; Mindi N. Thompson – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Results from a growing body of correlational and qualitative research have illustrated the ways in which students who are poor or working class manage their social class identities in higher education. Strategies of class code-switching (e.g., altering language) and disassociation (e.g., hiding status) were commonly used by students to manage the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Bias, Low Income Students, College Students
Houze, Shea Kidd – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2021
This chapter acknowledges the historical origins and access points of positional leadership roles on campus. In addition to highlighting barriers for poor and working-class students, the chapter suggests broadening access to leadership learning from the lens of community cultural wealth.
Descriptors: Social Class, Barriers, Student Leadership, Socioeconomic Status
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
Ellen Bryer – Grantee Submission, 2022
Support for higher education is a known and well-documented venue for financial transfers within families, but practices of family support beyond college are less understood. Drawing on interviews with recent master's degrees recipients who have student debt, I find key class differences in the process and forms of family financial assistance for…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Debt (Financial), Social Differences, Middle Class
Ali Amjadi; Seyed Hassan Talebi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Implementing social-emotional learning skills into Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), the current study intended to extend the efficacy of CSR for teaching reading strategies when applying it to students in rural areas from a working-class community. To this purpose, forty-four students who made the comparison and the experimental groups were…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Working Class, Reading Instruction, Males
Ábel Bereményi; Judit Durst; Zsanna Nyíro – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a "third space." Drawing on Bhabha's and bell hooks' development of this concept, we aim to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, College Graduates, Minority Group Students