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Who Gets to Be Smart
Privilege, Power and Knowledge
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This book might appeal to you if you're curious about the intersections of privilege, power, and access to knowledge. It offers a compelling critique of the educational system and explores who gets opportunities to education and why. If you're interested in thought-provoking discussions on inequality, this work provides insightful perspectives worth considering.
Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in this forensic and hard-hitting exploration of knowledge, power and privilege.
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'Debate done with absolute verve, with eloquence and generosity' — CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, author of Damascus
'Fascinating, eye-opening . . . a sharp wake-up call' — FLEX MAMI / LILLIAN AHENKAN, author of The Success Experiment
'Thoughtful, surprising and exquisitely written. Bri Lee once again challenges us to confront the structures that shape, and restrict, our understanding of the world.' — MADDISON CONNAUGHTON, editor of The Saturday Paper
In 2018, Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered. She learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the 'stream of gold and silver' that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there. The question that forms in her mind drives the following two years of conversations and investigations: who gets to be smart?
Interrogating the adage, 'knowledge is power', and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri once again dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results. Far from offering any 'equality of opportunity', Australia's education system exacerbates social stratification. The questions Bri asks of politics and society have their answers laid bare in the responses to the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
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ISBN: 9781760879808
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 376g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Bri Lee is the multi-award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, Beauty, and Who Gets to Be Smart. The Work is Bri's debut novel.Her journalism, essays, and short stories have been published widely, and she is the creator and editor of News & Reviews.
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