Educational Upward Mobility: Practices of Social Changes

Educational Upward Mobility: Practices of Social Changes

2015

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Publisher's Synopsis

What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social contexts, educational institutions and policies in Austria and England to demonstrate a surprising number of similarities behind those who succeed using Bourdieu's concept of habitus.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137355300
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2015
DEWEY: 378.0086230941
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 184
Weight: 364g
Height: 145mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 16mm