{"title":"Dr Alexandra Coleman","description":"\u003cp\u003eDr Alexandra Coleman's works delve into the intricate relationships between social class, geography, and the world of higher education. Her writing offers thoughtful analysis and critical insight into how these elements influence access, experience, and outcomes within academic institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in education studies will find her books both illuminating and essential, exploring themes of inequality and belonging with clarity and depth. Her contributions enrich discussions on educational policy and social structures, making complex issues accessible and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"class-place-and-higher-education-by-dr-alexandra-coleman-9781350256224","title":"Class, Place, and Higher Education","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHigher education is seen to be a means to \"the\" good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of working-class students and graduates from Western Sydney – an area that is imagined, from the outside, to be a place of lack and stagnation, the \"other\" Sydney. \u003cem\u003eClass, Place, and Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the myth that participation in higher education necessarily leads to upward social mobility and traces how the rewards of higher education are unevenly distributed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt considers how visions of a good life are class differentiated and makes an argument for the significance of place when examining experiences of higher education. Rather than focus on university as a means to becoming middle class, the book examines how university becomes a means to \"a\" good life, not \"the\" good life. This good life is embedded in place, in working-class places like Western Sydney, and is one that becomes more complex and ambivalent through the process of going to university.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an attention to the existential and social dimensions of mobility, Alexandra Coleman develops the term \"homely mobility\" to describe the pull of people and place, and small-scale degrees of mobility in place – to a better street, the suburb next door, the university down the road. Structural inequalities are an embodied dimension of social being and action, and through the lens of homely mobility, this book affords insights into broader processes of social reproduction and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596010373356,"sku":"9781350256224","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f9a39d77e503e15c7a3e9d0cdf8cfa27.jpg?v=1777932244"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/dr-alexandra-coleman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}