Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and Schooling in a Neoliberal Age -- 2 Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Masculinities among Black Afric…
1. Policy logics, counter-narratives, and new directions : boys and schooling in a neoliberal age / Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl -- 2. Aspiration anxieties : developing middle-class masculinities among black African boys in London / Derron O. Wallace -- 3. White working-cla…
In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive disparities in academic achievement that are highly influenced by ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the neoliberal policy rhetoric, there has been concern over underachievement of working-class you…
Drawing on Bourdieu's theoretical tools and a model of egalitarian habitus, 'Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration in White Working-Class Boys' will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of sociology of education, and those from related…
Drawing on Bourdieu's theoretical tools and a model of egalitarian habitus, 'Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration in White Working-Class Boys' will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of sociology of education, and those from related…
"International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations offers new insights and guidance for those looking to use Bourdieu's tools in an educational context, with a focus on how the tools can be applied to issues of aspiration. Written by contributors from the UK, USA, Australia, …
"International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations offers new insights and guidance for those looking to use Bourdieu's tools in an educational context, with a focus on how the tools can be applied to issues of aspiration. Written by contributors from the UK, USA, Australia, …
"As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how these practices influence teaching and learning, school leadership, teachers' professional identities, and…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- PART I -- 2 School Ethnography, School Effects and Schooling in Neoliberal Times -- 3 Charter Schools, the Reform Movement and CMOs -- 4 Corporatization, C…
