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From Being a Fish Out of Water to Swimming with the School

Notes from a Class Traveller in Australian Higher Education

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Australian higher education has a mixed class-character. It was originally a space of privilege and exclusion, but has more recently developed a greater sense of openness and inclusion. Despite the intention of mass education to bring higher education to a wider spectrum of society the older institutional logic of reproducing class boundaries has not completely evaporated.

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  1. School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    Greg Marston

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  1. University of Adelaide, Australia

    Dee Michell

  2. Federation University, Australia

    Jacqueline Z. Wilson

  3. Federation University, Australia

    Verity Archer

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Marston, G. (2015). From Being a Fish Out of Water to Swimming with the School. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_18

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