Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem A Ragged University Response

In this paper psychological research is used to develop a framework in which we can place notions of class in terms of relative dehumanisation as ingroups and outgroups to understand how opportunities are afforded to some and not to others, with categorical identities set up on the basis of inclusio...

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Main Author:	Alex Dunedin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool John Moores University 2018-12-01
Series:	PRISM
Subjects:	ragged university inclusion exclusion financial disadvantage informal education
Online Access:	https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/index.php/prism/article/view/293

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spelling	doaj-ad21d43ed9f04479a4d830a1f57745852020-11-25T01:49:25ZengLiverpool John Moores UniversityPRISM2514-53472018-12-0121109127https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.prism.vol2iss1article293Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem A Ragged University ResponseAlex Dunedin0Ragged UniversityIn this paper psychological research is used to develop a framework in which we can place notions of class in terms of relative dehumanisation as ingroups and outgroups to understand how opportunities are afforded to some and not to others, with categorical identities set up on the basis of inclusion or exclusion from cultural production. It draws upon political economy as a Social Science to examine how resulting culture reinforces relative advantage and disadvantage through finance as a mechanism which dispossesses the most disadvantaged from their inherent human capital as wealth appropriated by the advantaged. It introduces education as necessarily a project of social justice, with the Ragged University as a model in education consistent with human development and designed to function for the least advantaged under the hostile sociology of artificial scarcity.https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/index.php/prism/article/view/293ragged universityinclusionexclusionfinancial disadvantageinformal education
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title	Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem A Ragged University Response
title_short	Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem A Ragged University Response
title_full	Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem A Ragged University Response
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publisher	Liverpool John Moores University
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publishDate	2018-12-01
description	In this paper psychological research is used to develop a framework in which we can place notions of class in terms of relative dehumanisation as ingroups and outgroups to understand how opportunities are afforded to some and not to others, with categorical identities set up on the basis of inclusion or exclusion from cultural production. It draws upon political economy as a Social Science to examine how resulting culture reinforces relative advantage and disadvantage through finance as a mechanism which dispossesses the most disadvantaged from their inherent human capital as wealth appropriated by the advantaged. It introduces education as necessarily a project of social justice, with the Ragged University as a model in education consistent with human development and designed to function for the least advantaged under the hostile sociology of artificial scarcity.
topic	ragged university inclusion exclusion financial disadvantage informal education
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Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem A Ragged University Response

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