Education & Inequalities
Tutors: Sara Bragg and Kathryn Telling
Saturdays, 2pm to 4pm
Five weeks, 15th Jan – 5th Feb 2022
Venue: TBC (Sign up to our learning forum, Ryver for course materials and venue updates)
Suitable for beginners.
This is a continuation of the November 2021 course but you are free to join if you didn’t attend the earlier sessions.
Does doing well at school reflect hard work, intelligence, ability? Or is educational success a result of factors like privilege, and of how schools label students from different backgrounds? We examine the role of education and schooling in producing social inequality and introduce students to critical perspectives that explore and question the processes and outcomes of learning in different contexts, from primary school to university. We will analyse how education contexts might both perpetuate and / or challenge social inequalities based on class, gender, ethnicity. Topics to be covered will follow students’ own interests. The sessions all encourage reflection on personal experiences of schooling and education.