Post-School Dilemmas in Diminished Society: Working-Class Mothers' Perspectives of Choices and Realities in Their Communities

Autor/inn/en	Rodd, Piper; Sanders, Kellie
Titel	Post-School Dilemmas in Diminished Society: Working-Class Mothers' Perspectives of Choices and Realities in Their Communities
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 63 (2023) 2, S.140-164 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Parents; Mothers; Equal Education; Access to Education; Foreign Countries; Parent Attitudes; Social Justice; High School Graduates; Social Class; Educational Opportunities; Disadvantaged; Barriers; Postsecondary Education; Neoliberalism; Youth; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Eltern; Mother; Mutter; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ausland; Elternverhalten; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Australien
Abstract	This paper provides insight into working-class parents' views of the structural and systemic injustices shaping post-school options and opportunities in contemporary Australia, drawing on interview data with a group of mothers living in growth corridor suburbs in the outer west of Melbourne. Illustrating aspects of Berlant's (2011) notion of "cruel optimism", the paper examines the concepts of diminished society and collective community afforded by success through education, an aspiration and achievement unequal among young Australians. As Reay (2017) argues, an ideological narrative that positions individuals as being responsible for their own achievement through education sets many up to fail. This paper gives voice to the lived experiences of this individual responsibilitisation. We draw on elements of Marxist analysis, a subset of critical theory, whereby economic circumstances are the basis upon which political and ideological realities are built, critiquing the ways in which neoliberal social and economic policy and ideology are normalised (Tyson, 2015). (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01