Working-Class Boys and Educational Success

by Ingram, Nicola

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Title Statements

Full title :Working-Class Boys and Educational Success.

Summary

This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success. Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, some working-class boys are engaged with education, are motivated to succeed and have high aspirations. However, the structures of schooling in a society where working class-ness is seen as feckless, tasteless and cultureless make the processes of becoming successful more challenging than they need to be. This volume reveals the unique processes of reconciling success and identities for individual working-class boys, and the important role schools have to play in this negotiation. Highly relevant to those engaged in teacher training in socially unequal societies, this book will also appeal to practitioners, sociologists of education, scholars of social justice and Bourdieusian theorists.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan UK
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (XI, 244 pages 13 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1137401591, 9781137401595, 9781137401588, 1137401583
DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-40159-5
oclc:on1058628463
LC Classification:LC212.9-LC212.93
Dewey Decimal:370.81

Chapter 1. The Class Feeling -- Chapter 2. Success, Class, and Masculinities -- Chapter 3. Negotiating with Bourdieu -- Chapter 4. Researching with Working-Class Teenage Boys: A Working-Class Feminist Approach -- Chapter 5. Systemic Social Segregation -- Chapter 6. Congruent and Discordant Habitus -- Chapter 7. Negotiating Habitus -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.