Self-Made Men

Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-Family Males

AvGarth Stahl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This book explores how boys from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds disengage from their education, and are resultantly severely underrepresented in post-compulsory education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:255
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031079535

Utforska kategorier

Högskola och universitet inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Pedagogik inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Garth Stahl is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and former Research Fellow, Australian Research Council (DECRA), Australia. His research interests lie on the nexus of neoliberalism and socio-cultural studies of education, identity, equity/inequality, and social change. Currently, his research projects and publications encompass theoretical and empirical studies of learner identities, gendered subjectivities, equity and difference, and educational reform.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Upwardly mobile working-class masculinities.- 3. The Australian higher education context.- 4. Theorizing social mobility and the first-in-family experience.- 5. The transition to university: Dissonance, validation and meritocratic subjectivities.- 6. Performing the entrepreneurial self.- 7. Narratives of value and fulfilment.- 8. Relational subjectivities and self-crafting in times of transition.- 9. Reflections and recommendations.