Elite Universities - Working Class Students
Class and Education: Laurie Taylor explores elite universities and the lives of working class academics.
CLASS AND EDUCATION
Laurie Taylor talks to Kalwant Bhopal, Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham, about her research into the inner workings of elite universities and the making of privilege.
They're joined by Iona Burnell Reilly, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the University of East London, whose latest study presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education, and considers how have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Guests and Further Reading
(Emerald Publishing Limited)
Kalwant Bhopal, Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham
Book: Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies by Kalwant Bhopal & Martin Myers (Routledge)
Broadcasts
- Wed 12 Apr 202316:00BBC Radio 4
- Mon 17 Apr 202300:15BBC Radio 4
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