Here's how social class gives some university students a competitive edge - We Rep STEM
Sioux McKenna, Rhodes University and Simpiwe Sobuwa, Durban University of Technology.Thumbnail images courtesy of Unsplash. Graphic elements and editing by We Rep STEM.
Many of the privileges that middle-class students enjoy are so arcane as to be invisible, even to themselves. These students often bring with them a sense that their role at university is to engage not just with facts but with the disciplinary rules for how knowledge gets made. Typically they are willing to challenge what is presented to them and to seek flaws in the evidence provided in the texts they encounter. They also have a stronger confidence in their right to be there and to participate fully. These, and many other ways, aid middle-class students to enter the academy primed for success.
Sioux McKenna, Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University and Simpiwe Sobuwa, Head of Department: Emergency Medical Care & Rescue, Durban University of Technology
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