Class, place, and higher education : experiences of homely mobility
Coleman, Alexandra2022
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Higher education is seen to be a means to "the" good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise? This book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of working-class students and graduates from Western Sydney - an area that is imagined, from the outside, to be a place of lack and stagnation, the "other" Sydney. This book challenges the myth that participation in higher education necessarily leads to upward social mobility and traces how the rewards of higher education are unevenly distributed. It considers how visions of a good life are class differentiated and makes an argument for the significance of place when examining experiences of higher education. Rather than focus on university as a means to becoming middle class, Class, Place, and Higher Education examines how university becomes a means to "a" good life, not "the" good life.
Main title:
Class, place, and higher education : experiences of homely mobility / Alexandra Coleman.
Author:
Coleman, Alexandra, author
Imprint:
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, ©2022.
Collation:
179 pages
Series:
Understanding student experiences of higher education
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
IntroductionHomely mobility : rethinking BourdieuUniversity and the promise of a good lifeFeeling "at home" at universityThe graduate waiting roomOn the social gravity of people and placeConclusions.
ISBN:
9781350256217 (hardback)
Dewey class:
378.94
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
413421
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research | Local Book | 378.94 CLA | Not for loan (Set: 16 Jan 2023) |