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The University of Southampton
Southampton Education School

Working class students and continuing processes of symbolic domination in English state schooling Seminar

Time:
12:45 - 13:45
Date:
12 June 2013
Venue:
Southampton Education School Building 32 Room 2097

For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Dr Antonia Kupfer on 02380593481 or email A.Kupfer@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

In the current system working class students learn first and foremost that they are not very good at education and that their failure to perform well academically and achieve success is the result of their own lack of effort and ability.

Symbolic domination works powerfully through such individualised processes. This paper explores the experiences of working class students in English education, examining the processes of symbolic domination that position the working classes as 'losers' in the educational game.

Speaker information

Professor Diane Reay , University of Cambridge. Professor of Education

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