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'Fitting in' or 'standing out': Working-class students in UK higher education

British educational research journal, 2010-02, Vol.36 (1), p.107-124 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2010 British Educational Research Association ;2010 British Educational Research Association ;ISSN: 0141-1926 ;EISSN: 1469-3518 ;DOI: 10.1080/01411920902878925

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Title:
'Fitting in' or 'standing out': Working-class students in UK higher education
Author: Reay, Diane ; Crozier, Gill ; Clayton, John
Subjects: Academic learning ; Case Studies ; Class identity ; College Students ; Colleges ; Educational Benefits ; Familiarity ; Foreign Countries ; Higher Education ; Law students ; Minority group students ; Peer Groups ; Self Concept ; Social classes ; Social factors ; Socioeconomic status ; Student Attitudes ; Students ; United Kingdom ; Universities ; University campuses ; Working Class
Is Part Of: British educational research journal, 2010-02, Vol.36 (1), p.107-124
Description: Drawing on case studies of 27 working-class students across four UK higher education institutions, this article attempts to develop a multilayered, sociological understanding of student identities that draws together social and academic aspects. Working with a concept of student identity that combines the more specific notion of learner identity with more general understandings of how students are positioned in relation to their discipline, their peer group and the wider university, the article examines the influence of widely differing academic places and spaces on student identities. Differences between institutions are conceptualised in terms of institutional habitus, and the article explores how the four different institutional habituses result in a range of experiences of fitting in and standing out in higher education. For some this involves combining a sense of belonging in both middle-class higher education and working-class homes, while others only partially absorb a sense of themselves as students.
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0141-1926
EISSN: 1469-3518
DOI: 10.1080/01411920902878925
Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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'Fitting in' or 'standing out': Working-class students in UK higher education

Copyright © 2010 British Educational Research Association ;2010 British Educational Research Association ;ISSN: 0141-1926 ;EISSN: 1469-3518 ;DOI: 10.1080/01411920902878925

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