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Who gets to be smart / Bri Lee.

By: Lee, Bri [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 288 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760879808 (pbk.); 1760879800Subject(s): Lee, Bri | Educational choice | Elite (Social sciences) | Intellectuals | Social stratification -- Australia | Privilege (Social psychology) | Educational equalization | AustralianDDC classification: 305.552

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Oxford -- Kyriarchy -- Schools -- Science -- Language -- Western civilisation -- 2020.

Summary: In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian was named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the 'stream of gold and silver' that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there. The question that forms in her mind drives the following two years of conversations and investigations: who gets to be smart? Interrogating the adage, 'knowledge is power', and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri once again dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
wnor- Book	Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction	306 .42 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		AL42000232424B

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Previous	306. 0994 FER Outback stories : tracks further out / Country life Frontier and pioneer life	306 .0994 GRO Growing up in Australia / Immigrants' writings Sexual minorities People with disabilities Youth Aboriginal Australians Coming of age Multiculturalism Anthologies.	306 .0994 SCH The idea of Australia : a search for the soul of the nation / National characteristics, Australian.	306 .42 LEE Who gets to be smart / Educational choice. Elite (Social sciences) Intellectuals. Social stratification Privilege (Social psychology) Educational equalization.	306 .4613 BRU Embrace kids : how you can help your kids to love and celebrate their bodies / Body image in children. Body image in adolescence. Body image. Body image Body image disturbance. Body size. Self-acceptance. Self-confidence. Parenting. Child rearing. Parent and child. Parent and teenager.	306 .6 ELK Aboriginal men of high degree	306 .7 BER Four things women want from a man / Marriage. Man-woman relationships. Women Men	Next

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Oxford -- Kyriarchy -- Schools -- Science -- Language -- Western civilisation -- 2020.

In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian was named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the 'stream of gold and silver' that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there. The question that forms in her mind drives the following two years of conversations and investigations: who gets to be smart? Interrogating the adage, 'knowledge is power', and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri once again dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results.

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