Higher Education and Working-Class Academics : Precarity and Diversity in Academia

✍ Scribed by Teresa Crew

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 153
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction (Teresa Crew)....Pages 1-17
A Working-Class Academic Identity (Teresa Crew)....Pages 19-44
Precarity (Teresa Crew)....Pages 45-67
Hostile Encounters (Teresa Crew)....Pages 69-94
Supporting Students (Teresa Crew)....Pages 95-110
A Working-Class Academic Pedagogy (Teresa Crew)....Pages 111-128
Looking Back and Moving Forward (Teresa Crew)....Pages 129-141
Back Matter ....Pages 143-147

✦ Subjects

Education; Higher Education; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education; Self and Identity; Ethnicity in Education

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