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02817aam a2200445 i 4500 001 4EA0DDCCDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 007 ta 008 210311t20212021xna b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1760879800 020 $a 9781760879808 035 $a (OCoLC)1241660926 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d ATCDL $d OCLCF $d AUPTL $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a u-at--- 050 4 $a HM728 $b .L44 2021 082 04 $a 305.552 $2 23 100 1 $a Lee, Bri, $e author. 245 10 $a Who gets to be smart : $b privilege, power and knowledge / $c Bri Lee. 264 1 $a Sydney, N.S.W. : $b Allen & Unwin, $c 2021. 300 $a 288 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a 1 Oxford -- 2 Kyriarchy -- 3 Schools -- 4 Science -- 5 Language -- 6 Western civilisation -- 7 2020 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- References. 520 $a In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is 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. Far from offering any 'equality of opportunity', Australia's education system exacerbates social stratification. The questions Bri asks of politics and society have their answers laid bare in the responses to the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. 650 0 $a Privilege (Social psychology) 650 0 $a Elite (Social sciences) 650 0 $a Intellectuals. 650 0 $a Social stratification $z Australia. 650 0 $a Educational equalization. 650 0 $a Educational choice. 650 7 $a Educational equalization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903418 650 7 $a Elite (Social sciences) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00908113 650 7 $a Intellectuals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975799 650 7 $a Privilege (Social psychology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01982883 650 7 $a Social stratification. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123370 651 7 $a Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204543 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023202.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220601010554.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4EA0DDCCDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search