Lorenza Antonucci

Student Lives in Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

Deepening Inequality in Times of Austerity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the greatest social change of the last twenty years about half of Europe's young people now attend university. Their lived experiences are however largely undocumented.

Antonucci travelled across six cities and three European countries - England, Italy and Sweden - to provide the first ever comparison of the lives of university students across countries and socio-economic backgrounds. Contrasting students' resources and backgrounds, this original work exposes the profound social effects of austerity and the financial crisis on young people.

Questionnaires and first person interviews reveal that, in contrast with what assumed by HE policies, participating in university exacerbates inequalities among young people. This work is a wake-up call for re-thinking the role of higher education in relation to social justice in European societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447318286
• Artikelnr.: 45959448

Autorenporträt

Lorenza Antonucci is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy/Sociology at Teesside University where she researches on inequality. Lorenza is also Research Associate at the European Social Observatory (OSE) in Brussels. She is co-editor of 'Young People and Social Policy in Europe' (2014). In 2015 she has been awarded with the Royal Society of Edinburgh Visiting Fellowship (2015). You can follow her on Twitter @SocialLore