‘They think it’s trendy to have a disability/mental-illness’: disability, capital and desire in elite education
dc.contributor.author | Stentiford, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Koutsouris, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Allan, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-05T12:05:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-19 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-07-05T10:59:07Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Research has long demonstrated the exclusion and Othering experienced by young people with disabilities in education. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study conducted in an ‘elite’ sixth-form college in England, set against the backdrop of a shifting social, political, and cultural landscape, where neo-liberal discourses of dis/ability and healthism – centring on mental health and wellbeing – are becoming further embedded in educational policy. Drawing on theoretical work by Bourdieu and Foucault, we demonstrate how the students in this study appeared able to re-make disability as a liberal intellectual identity marker and use it as a form of capital within the bounded college sub-field. However, we argue that these empowered disabled subjectivities were strongly middle-classed and precarious. The findings have implications through advancing current understandings of young people’s complexifying relationships with disability in education, of enduring inequalities around disability, and how social class is implicated in this. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | British Academy | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 19 July 2023 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/01425692.2023.2237199 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | SRG1819\190984 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133551 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-8899-8271 (Stentiford, Lauren) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.subject | Disability | en_GB |
dc.subject | Elite education | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social class | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ethnography | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mental health | en_GB |
dc.subject | Special educational needs | en_GB |
dc.title | ‘They think it’s trendy to have a disability/mental-illness’: disability, capital and desire in elite education | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-05T12:05:44Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0142-5692 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1465-3346 | |
dc.identifier.journal | British Journal of Sociology of Education | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-07-05 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2023-02-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-07-05 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-07-05T10:59:09Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-08-03T12:51:34Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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