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Higher Education and Working-Class Academics

Precarity and Diversity in Academia

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Authors:
  1. Teresa Crew

    1. School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

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  • Draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to examine the experience of the working-class academic
  • Illustrates that the term 'working-class academic' in itself is not homogenous
  • Examines the numerous intersections of ethnicity, gender, dis/ability and place within academic identity

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 1-17

  3. A Working-Class Academic Identity

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 19-44

  4. Precarity

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 45-67

  5. Hostile Encounters

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 69-94

  6. Supporting Students

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 95-110

  7. A Working-Class Academic Pedagogy

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 111-128

  8. Looking Back and Moving Forward

    • Teresa Crew
    Pages 129-141

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 143-147
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

    Teresa Crew

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Higher Education and Working-Class Academics

  • Book Subtitle: Precarity and Diversity in Academia

  • Authors: Teresa Crew

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58352-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58351-4Published: 10 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58354-5Published: 11 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58352-1Published: 09 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 147

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Self and Identity, Ethnicity in Education

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