Education
Extra Time - Private Tuition and out-of-school study, new international evidence
In this report by John Jerrim, produced for the Sutton Trust, the additional benefits of 'shadow education' for middle-class students are explored, how these hidden benefits widen the education gap between the social classes and damage the self confidence of working class children.
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This book by Paul Freire was originally published in 1968. Freire was a Marxist, and his conviction that the shortcomings of the educational system were inextricably tied to the inequality and injustices of the capitalist system is threaded throughout the book. He believed that radical social change was very possible within situations of deep oppression and that true teaching and learning was an interplay, where students, especially those with lived experience of poverty, had an essential part to play.
Education and The Working Class
Click through to a wonderful essay outlining the work of Denis Marsden on education and class, including the lived experience of 90 working class Grammar School kids and also on the lived experience of working class single motherhood. Thanks to Dr Deirdre O'Neill for recommending Denis' work.
Now I'm an Oxford student am I still working class?
Click through to a summary of elite university life from a working class perspective. From 2018 but timeless and relevant to any working class person in any elite or middle class-dominated space.
