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Title: Social Class, Identity and the 'Good' Student: Negotiating University Culture (Report)
Author : Australian Journal of Education
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 221 KB

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Through the use of narrative portraits this paper discusses social class and identity, as working-class university students perceive them. With government policy encouraging wider participation rates from under-represented groups of people within the university sector, working-class students have found themselves to be the objects of much research. Working-class students are, for the most part, studied as though they are docile bodies, unable to participate in the construction of who they are, and working-class accounts of university experiences are quite often compared to the middle-class norms. This paper explores how working-class students see themselves within the university culture. Working-class students' voices and stories form the focus of this paper, in which the language of 'disadvantage' is dealt with and the ideologies of class identity explored. Keywords