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Dane Morace-Court, Dr

Senior Lecturer in Education at Southampton Solent University

Dane Morace-Court is Senior Lecturer in Education at Southampton Solent University. Dane’s research examines the effects of neoliberalism and meritocratic discourse on young people’s educational identities, aspirations and trajectories, with sustained attention to the experiences of White working-class boys. He is especially interested in how contemporary formations of masculinity, affect and social media cultures intersect with classed experiences of schooling, attainment and disengagement. Across his work, he explores how identities and aspirations are shaped not as freely chosen projects, but as socially patterned and structurally constrained orientations towards the future.
He is the author of Neoliberal Boys: Class, Masculinity and the Crisis in Education (Routledge), which examines the educational experiences of working-class boys through the intersecting lenses of neoliberal governance, masculinity and social reproduction. He is also the author of Autoethnography: A Case for the Defence (Routledge), which offers a sustained and critical defence of autoethnography as a rigorous, theoretically generative research approach, engaging directly with its most persistent critiques.
Dane’s work contributes to contemporary debates on inequality, identity and education, and is underpinned by a commitment to reflexivity, critical engagement and social justice.

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