{"product_id":"notions-9781837080359","title":"Notions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ireland, it is said that people with notions are acting above their station and with a misplaced sense of their own importance. Certainly, working-class academics often feel out of place at work, caught somewhere between where they come from and where they are now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo be at once working class and an academic is seemingly paradoxical, since the career assumes a moving away from one’s origins. That transition, if it is made at all, is seldom straightforward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA series of autoethnographies from Irish academics, both at home and abroad, all of whom have a working-class heritage, these are stories of people negotiating not only class in the context of higher education but, on occasion, the experience of colonialism and diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotions\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating insight into the journey of working-class people through an elite and professional environment that is ill-prepared to receive them, despite institutional and sectoral claims to equality, diversity, and inclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are stories of working lives that have required struggle, resilience, and ingenuity, offering important lessons for the future of a higher education sector at a watershed moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934158569708,"sku":"9781837080359","price":360.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781837080359-notions.jpg?v=1783900864","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/notions-9781837080359","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}