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'Mopping up Tears in the Academy' -- Working-Class Academics, Belonging, and the Necessity for Emotional Labour in UK Academia
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Rickett, Bridgette; Morris, Anna – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Previous research exploring how working-class women experience UK Higher Education (HE) work has made evident recurring themes around social segregation and corresponding difficulties with feeling they belong. This paper develops this work by exploring the ways in which UK, HE based working-class women lecturers talk about their sense of…
Descriptors: Working Class, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Higher Education
The Grey Faces of Academic Workers: On the Non-Emancipatory Resistance of Polish Humanists to the Edu-Factory Reform of Academia
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Szwabowski, Oskar – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2016
In this article I deal with the Polish discourse generated by academics facing a reform of higher education. My primary interest is to what extent their statement enables or disables emancipatory practice. I point out that the structure of academics' prevalent discourse in the face of education-factory reform makes liberation impossible.…
Descriptors: Humanism, College Faculty, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Maybe One in a Hundred or One in a Thousand in the Neoliberal, New-Managerial University! Aesthetics of Experience and the Question of Transgressive Critical Thinking
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Beach, Dennis – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Trangression is an act of challenging boundaries that separate apparently distinct oppositional categories objects. Examples are categories such as such as civilised/primitive, male/female, master/servant, Lordship/bondage. The article deals with such transgressions related to the evolution of class consciousness transgressive critical thinking.…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Critical Thinking, Neoliberalism, Social Class
Discovering Social Inequality: Dutch Educational Research in the Post-War Era
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Bakker, Nelleke; Amsing, Hilda T. A. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
Between the 1940s and 1960s across Western Europe a spirit of reform along comprehensive lines manifested itself in secondary education, aiming at a reduction of the existing social inequality of educational chances. These reforms are said to be rooted in new policies and in new approaches in educational studies. This article explores the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Research, Secondary Education, At Risk Students
Class and Ethnicity at Work. Segregation and Conflict in a Swedish Secondary School
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Öhrn, Elisabet – Education Inquiry, 2011
Drawing on a study of a Swedish secondary school with a heterogeneous intake, this article provides an analysis of the social relations and segregation within an individual school. As shown in the analysis, young people from different socio-economic backgrounds were largely separated in school, differently positioned and in conflict with each…
Descriptors: Social Class, Secondary School Students, Ethnic Groups, Social Differences