Education MA suggested reading List

Books:

Gewirtz, S. and Cribb, A. (2009). Understanding Education. London: Polity

Hooks, B., 1994. Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge.

Academic articles:

Apple, M. W. (1993). THE POLITICS OF OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE: Does a National Curriculum Make Sense? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 14(1), 1–16.

Reay, D., Crozier, G., & Clayton, J. (2009). “Strangers in Paradise”? Working-class Students in Elite Universities. Sociology, 43(6), 1103–1121. 

Wallace, D. (2017). Reading ‘Race’ in Bourdieu? Examining Black Cultural CapitalAmong Black Caribbean Youth in South London. Sociology, 51(5), 907–923. 

Wider reading (a few ‘non academic’ articles which might be of interest!):

Ferguson, D. (2017). ‘Working-class children get less of everything in education -including respect’. The Guardian. 21 Nov.  (Accessed 16 Jun 2026)

Vaughan, R. P., Longlands, H., Unterhalter, E., Sass, J., Eck, M., Casado, T. M.(2026). ‘Is getting girls into school enough to achieve gender equality?’. LSEInequalities .24 Feb.  (Accessed 16 Jun 2026)