Higher Education and Working-Class Academics

Precarity and Diversity in Academia

Teresa Crew (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 147 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-58351-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Teresa Crew is 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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2020
Zusatzinfo	XI, 147 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	346 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	elitism in academia • habitus in higher education • imposter syndrome in higher education • intersectionality and higher education • microagressions and academia • navigating elite environments • Pierre Bourdieu • social class in higher education • working class academics
ISBN-10	3-030-58351-1 / 3030583511
ISBN-13	978-3-030-58351-4 / 9783030583514
Zustand	Neuware