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Who gets to be smart : privilege, power and knowledge / Bri Lee.

Who gets to be smart : privilege, power and knowledge / Bri Lee.
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TF1301710 379.26 LEE
Loan   . On Loan . 17 May 2024
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Record Number 21071
ISBN 9781760879808
1760879800
Location 379.26 LEE
Author Lee, Bri (author.).
Title Who gets to be smart : privilege, power and knowledge / Bri Lee.
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Collation 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note "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, as 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." - Back cover.
Subject Elite (Social sciences)
Intellectuals
Educational equalization
Educational choice
Educational equalization
Elite (Social sciences)
Intellectuals
Privilege (Social psychology)
Social stratification
Power (Social sciences)
Education -- Social aspects
Knowledge, Sociology of
Equality -- Social aspects
Privilege (Social psychology)
Social stratification -- Australia
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