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Class Dismissed? On Habitus Transformation and Hidden Injuries of Successful Working-Class University Students

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As the numbers of working-class students at university grow, we need to gain a better understanding of the different ways in which they consolidate their working-class habitus with the middle-class culture of the academic field. Drawing on data from a four-year longitudinal, qualitative study of working-class students at a large, research-intensive Canadian university, the seminar will focus on the experiences of those participants who fully embraced, became integrated and achieved academic success at university.

Migration, Racism and Xenophobia, May 14-16 in Wroclaw, Poland

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I’m glad to announce the first call for the 2014 conference of the ESREA research network “Migration, Racism and Xenophobia, May 14-16 in Wroclaw, Poland. The title of the conference is Multiculturalism' today: aspirations, realities and crisis debates. Attached is the first call for papers and more information is also available at the website www.esrea.dsw.edu.pl and on www.esrea.org.

Adult Learning in Australia: in what direction is it going?

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As the rest of the world struggles with high unemployment in the wake  of the Global Financial Crises, Australia faces the problem of skills  shortages. This is in part fuelled by China¹s increasing appetite for  Australia's natural resources.  Prosperity in Australia has brought its  own problems and successive governments have reduced funding for adult  education. Skills shortages have created a "moral panic" that dismisses  learning that doesn't fill a specific skills shortage as unworthy of  support.

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