1st Edition

The Working Classes and Higher Education Inequality of Access, Opportunity and Outcome

Edited By Amy E. Stich, Carrie Freie Copyright 2016
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Within the broader context of the global knowledge economy, wherein the "college-for-all" discourse grows more and more pervasive and systems of higher education become increasingly stratified by social class, important and timely questions emerge regarding the future social location and mobility of the working classes. Though the working classes look very different from the working classes of... Read more

Foreword Lois Weis Introduction Amy Stich and Carrie Freie Part I. Inequality of Access 1. "They Really Drill It into You to Go to University": Influences on Working-Class Students’ Decision to Go to University Wolfgang Lehmann 2. Working-Class Minority Students’ Pathways to Higher Education Roberta Espinoza, Cynthia M. Alcantar, and Edwin Hernandez 3. Tracking Access to Knowledge within a Working Class College Amy Stich Part II. Inequality of Experience and Opportunity 4. ‘Outsiders on the Inside’: Working Class Students at UK Universities Diane Reay 5. Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life among Financial Aid Recipients Peter Kinsley and Sara Goldrick-Rab 6. Normative Institutional Arrangements and the Mobility Pathway: How Campus-Level Forces Impact First-Generation Students Jenny Stuber 7. First Generation Female College Students in the Web of the Academy Carrie Freie 8. "You Don’t Have To Be a College Graduate to Be Intelligent:" First-Generation Students’ Views of Intelligence and Education Ann Mullen Part III. Inequality of Outcome 9. Working-Class Youth and the Betrayal of the Future Jennifer Silva 10. A Foot in Two Worlds: First-Generation College Graduates and the Discourses Needed for Academic Success Mari Plikuhn and Matthew Knoester 11. Great Expectations: Classed Outcomes of Liberal Arts College Graduates Allison Hurst

Biography

Amy Stich is Assistant Professor of Foundations of Education at Northern Illinois University, USA.

Carrie Freie is Associate Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University, USA.