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Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

江俊儒
- Iss: 32, pp 5-8
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The article was published on 2011-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Working class.

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Creative Accommodations: The fractured transitions and precarious lives of young musicians

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Education and the reconstitution of social class in England

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Learning in neoliberal times: Private degree students and the politics of value coding in Singapore

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of how students are shaped by and pushing back against neoliberal discourses, by focusing on the ethnograph, is presented, focusing on how students push back against the discourses.
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