Higher Education and Working-Class Academics
Precarity and Diversity in Academia
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 2020
XI, 147 pages
978-3-030-58352-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines how a working-class habitus interacts with the elite culture of academia in higher education. Drawing on extensive qualitative data and informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the author presents new ways of examining impostor syndrome, alienation and microaggressions: all common to the working-class experience of academia. The book demonstrates that the term 'working-class academic' is not homogenous, and instead illuminates the entanglements of class and academia. Through an examination of such intersections as ethnicity, gender, dis/ability, and place, the author demonstrates the complexity of class and academia in the UK and asks how we can move forward so working-class academics can support both each other and students from all backgrounds.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XI, 147 p. 7 illus.
File size
2,21 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-58352-1 (9783030583521)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-58352-1
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/2020
Palgrave Pivot
€69.54
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Person
Teresa Crew
is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Bangor University, UK. Her research interests include higher education and social mobility; social capital of vulnerable groups and access to and barriers into employment.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A working-class academic identity.- Chapter 3. Precarity.- Chapter 4. Hostile encounters.- Chapter 5. Supporting students.- Chapter 6. A working-class pedagogy.- Chapter 7. Looking back and moving forward
