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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Teresa Crew is Senior 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.
