Table of Contents

Stepping out of Line?: An Autobiographical Reflection of Growing up Working Class, to Becoming Educated and Moving beyond the Status Quo 1. Class, State Schooling and Social Inequality in the UK: Historical and Current Context 2. Applying Marxist, Bourdieusian and Freirean Theories to the Study of Social Class and Schooling 3. Researching with Adults: A Visual Intervention within Critical Ethnography (VICE) 4. Social Class and Generational Transmission 5. Working Class Experiences of Schooling and Beyond 6. Engaging Agency: Problematising and Finding the Solution 7. Conclusion: Beyond Social Injustices – Building ‘Praxis’ into Forms of Teaching and Research

About the Author

Sharon Jones completed her PhD in the Sociology of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Reviews

This book makes a fresh and much-needed contribution to the understanding of the education of the working class. It is methodologically unique and theoretically rich. Sharon Jones renews Marxist analyses of educational disadvantage and the role of education in the distribution of opportunities.Dr Spyros Themelis, University of East Anglia