Habitus and homeland: Educational aspirations, family life and culture in autobiographical narratives of educational experience in rural wales

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-72

  Baker, Sally ^a   Brown, B J ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; CULTURE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL HISTORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 40149101271     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2008.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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