This book provides a narrative account of the experiences of twenty former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attended elite public and private secondary schools. It draws on in-depth, one-on-one semi-structured interviews conducted with former scholarship recipients who were between the ages of 19 and 24 years at the time of the interviews. Various themes are explored, specifically focusing on elite schooling in relation to the experiences and...
Table des matières
1. Introduction.- 2. The Gift of a Scholarship.- 3. Setting the Scene: Students in Elite Educational Contexts.- 4. Entering the Field.- 5. Cul...
A propos de l’auteur
Jennifer Wallace is the Principal of a fee-paying public girls-only school located in Cape Town, South Africa. The focus of her research work, and recently subm...