Diane Reay
Diane Reay is a sociologist and academic, who is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. She is noted for her study about educational inequalities among students in state schools in the United Kingdom. She has maintained that there is a tendency to misuse the school selection practice to transform social class differences into education.{{Cite web|url=https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/in-the-zone-making-education-fairer/|title=In the zone: making education fairer|date=2019-03-04|website=Indonesia at Melbourne|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-04-22}} For instance, she criticized the Oxbridge application process as "institutionally racist".{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/23/oxbridge-racism-claims-from-own-academic_n_6922034.html|title=Oxbridge Application Process Branded 'Institutionally Racist' By Cambridge Professor|date=2015-03-23|website=HuffPost UK|language=en|access-date=2019-04-22}}
Working-class student experiences
Reay's research highlights the challenges that working-class students have in higher education, in particular when accessing and transitioning to and within higher education.
Background
Reay is the daughter of a coal miner and the eldest of eight children. She was raised on a council estate and was given free school meals while a young student. In an interview, she said, "I learned as a small child I had to work at least twice as hard as the middle-class children to achieve the same result."
She taught in a London primary school for 20 years before she began work at Cambridge, where she is currently an emeritus professor of sociology of education.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/04/teachers-national-education-service|title=Let teachers sack heads … and other ideas for a National Education Service|last=Lightfoot|first=Liz|date=2018-09-04|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-04-22|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
References
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Selected publications
- Reay, Diane. Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes. 1st ed., Bristol University Press, 2017, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt22p7k7m.
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Category:British educational theorists
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