Good students, bad pupils: Constructions of "aspiration", "disadvantage" and social class in undergraduate-led widening participation work

Educational Review

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-168

  Taylor, Yvette ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class; Education; Widening participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 42549145570     PISSN: 00131911     EISSN: 14653397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131910801934029     Document Type: Article

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