The Lives of Working Class Academics
eBook - ePub

The Lives of Working Class Academics

Getting Ideas Above your Station

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Lives of Working Class Academics

Getting Ideas Above your Station

About this book

Traditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes. This is what makes the life of a working class academic all the more interesting, rich and powerful. How have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism? How have they navigated their way, and what has the journey been like? Do they continue to identify as working class or has their social positioning and/or identities shifted?

Iona Burnell Reilly presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education ā€“ how they got there, what their journeys were like, what their experiences were, if they faced any struggles, conflicts, prejudice and discrimination, and if they had to, or still do, negotiate their identities. Told in their own words the academics chart their journeys and explore their experiences of becoming an academic while also coming from a working class background.

Although a working class heritage under-pins the autoethnography of each of the writers, the interlocking sections between class, race, gender and sexuality will also be relevant.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. About the Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 Navigating the Relational Character of Social Class for Capitalism in the Academy
  11. Chapter 2 Mr Airport Man and the Albatross: A Reverie of Flight, Hope and Transformation
  12. Chapter 3 Power, Corruption and Lies: Fighting the Class War to Widen Participation in Higher Education
  13. Chapter 4 ā€˜Friends First, Colleagues Secondā€™: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach to Exploring Working-Class Womenā€™s Experiences of the Neoliberal Academy
  14. Chapter 5 Coming to Terms With the Academic Self: Place, Pedagogy and Teacher Education
  15. Chapter 6 The Rubikā€™s Cube of Identity
  16. Chapter 7 Uptown Top Ranking: From a Council Estate to the Academy
  17. Chapter 8 Oneā€™s Place and the Right to Belong
  18. Chapter 9 Who Do You Think You Are? The Influence of Working-Class Experience on an Educator in a Process of Becoming
  19. Chapter 10 John Constable Was My First Art Teacher: Construction of Desire in a Working-Class Artist/Academic
  20. Chapter 11 Class Is a Verb: Lived Encounters of a Minority Ethnic Academic Who Self-Identifies With Aspects of Working-Class Cultures in the United Kingdom
  21. Chapter 12 Reading the Posh Newspapers
  22. Chapter 13 Thames Estuary Academic
  23. Chapter 14 Concluding Chapter: Tackling ā€˜the Tabooā€™: The Personal Is Political (and Itā€™s Scholarly Too)
  24. Afterword
  25. Enriching Universities and Scholarship by Prohibiting Class Discrimination
  26. Index