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The Lives of Working Class Academics

Getting Ideas Above your Station

Iona Burnell Reilly (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2022
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80117-058-1 (ISBN)
CHF 147,00 inkl. MwSt
A collection of autoethnographies written by academics who self-define as being from a working class heritage. Each one is an account of their lives, their experiences, and their journeys into becoming a higher education professional, in an industry still steeped in elitism.
Traditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes. This is what makes the life of a working class academic all the more interesting, rich and powerful. How have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism? How have they navigated their way, and what has the journey been like? Do they continue to identify as working class or has their social positioning and/or identities shifted?


Iona Burnell Reilly presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education – how they got there, what their journeys were like, what their experiences were, if they faced any struggles, conflicts, prejudice and discrimination, and if they had to, or still do, negotiate their identities. Told in their own words the academics chart their journeys and explore their experiences of becoming an academic while also coming from a working class background.


Although a working class heritage under-pins the autoethnography of each of the writers, the interlocking sections between class, race, gender and sexuality will also be relevant.

Iona Burnell Reilly is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education and Communities at the University of East London. Iona’s teaching background is in Further Education where she taught English (ESOL) and Access to HE courses for 10 years. She completed her doctorate at The University of Sheffield in 2013. Her research interests and published work are in social class and inequality in education, widening participation, equality and inclusion in higher education, and the experiences of working class students in higher education.

Chapter 1. Navigating the Relational Character of Social Class for Capitalism in the Academy; Alpesh Maisuria

Chapter 2. Mr. Airport Man & the Albatross: A reverie of flight, hope and transformation; Craig A. Hammond

Chapter 3. Power, corruption and lies: fighting the class-war to widen participation in higher education; Colin McCaig

Chapter 4. ‘Friends First, Colleagues Second’: A collaborative autoethnographic approach to exploring working-class women’s experiences of the neoliberal academy; Carli Rowell and Hannah Walters

Chapter 5. Coming to terms with the academic self: place, pedagogy and teacher education; ML White

Chapter 6. The Rubik’s Cube of Identity; Khalil Akbar

Chapter 7. Uptown Top Ranking: From a Council Estate to the Academy; Marcia A. Wilson

Chapter 8. One’s Place and the Right to Belong; Iona Burnell Reilly

Chapter 9. Who do you think you are? The influence of working class experience on an educator in a process of becoming; Peter Shukie

Chapter 10. John Constable was my first art teacher: Construction of desire in a working-class artist/academic; Samantha Broadhead

Chapter 11. Class is a verb: lived encounters of a minority ethnic academic who self-identifies with aspects of working-class cultures in the UK; Stephen Wong

Chapter 12. Reading the posh newspapers; Teresa Crew

Chapter 13. Thames Estuary Academic; Jo Finch

Concluding chapter: Tackling ‘the taboo’: the personal is political (and it’s scholarly too); Michael Pierse

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 502 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-80117-058-4 / 1801170584
ISBN-13 978-1-80117-058-1 / 9781801170581
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