The Lives of working class academics : getting ideas above your station

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 eliti...

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Other Authors Reilly, Iona Burnell (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Subjects
College teachers.
Working class.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801170598
DOI10.1108/9781801170574
Physical Description1 online resource (308 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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