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Helen Lowe – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
This paper examines attitudes to classism in Irish education using a thematic analysis of social media conversations about social class between 2018 and 2022. Previous research indicates that Irish education systems are designed by and favour the dominant and ruling classes. However, few studies use the voice of the lived experience to explore the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Experience, Social Bias, Social Class
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Finnegan, Fergal; Merrill, Barbara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article is based on a comparative study of working-class students' experiences in English and Irish higher education. It highlights the lack of comparative studies on this topic based on qualitative research and why filling this gap is important in understanding access and widening participation. Drawing on biographical interviews with 139…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Working Class, College Students, Student Experience