Class, Place, and Higher Education

A beautifully written book that adds to our understanding of class, place and mobilities in higher education. The in-depth, insider exploration of student experiences challenges our assumptions and reminds us that university is just one path to a 'good life'. Highly recommended for anyone working in higher education, urban planners and policy makers. * Amani Bell, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia * A masterfully written book that manages to synthesise theory and lived experience in engaging and subtle ways rarely seen in academic monographs. * Educational Review * Class, Place, and Higher Education is innovative, insightful, analytically rich, engaging, heartfelt and a fantastic read. It continues a strong tradition of using Bourdieu's theories and concepts to understand and explain the role of social class in the experiences and outcomes of higher education, but advances the conversation by adding the important (but so far largely overlooked) element of space. In this respect, the book is breaking new ground and will be adding to scholarly debates on class and educational inequality in a meaningful and constructive way. * Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor, Department of Sociology, Western University, Canada * Few scholars have written so eloquently on the ambivalence of the promise of a good life offered by universities to working class students. Drawing on a 'philosophical' Bourdieu, Coleman captures incisively the push and pull of family, mobility and aspiration through her analyses of 'homely mobility' and the 'gravity' of place. Inspiring. * Greg Noble, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia *