'Race', Class and Gender in Exclusion from School

ISBN-13: 9780750708418 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str.

Cecile Wright;McGlaughlin Ale

Opis

With education and social inequalities under scrutiny, this text provides a late-1990s summary of research into the key issues, as well as practical strategies for educators, including strategies for staff development, working with children and school policy. It argues that the facts have changed significantly, and that much received wisdom cannot be relied upon: girls' performance is rising faster than boys and surpasses them in almost all respects up to the age of 18; unequal opportunity faced by those of different race is becoming more fractured along class, gender, ethnic and religious lines; class divisions are increased with the reintroduction of selection and has become a matter of concern for government and school policy makers.

Spis treści

Series Editor Preface 1. Theoretical Overview 2. School Ethos and the 'Value' of Exclusion 3. Teachers and Pupils - Relationships of Power and Resistance 4. Interrelations of 'Race' and Gender in School 5. Gendering 'Race' 6. 'Race' and the Social Consequences of Exclusion 7. Future Prospects - Towards Inclusive Education for All

O autorze

Cecile Wright is Reader in Sociology at the Nottingham Trent University. She has both carried out research and written extensively in the field of race, ethnicity and education. Debbie Weekes is a Development Manager at the Windsor Fellowship. She has published and presented numerous articles and conference papers on issues such as Black female and male adolescence and the raising of ethnic minority pupil achievement. Alex McGlaughlin is Associate Head, Department of Social Sciences and Reader in Psychology at the Nottingham Trent University. His teaching and research in Human Development has resulted in publications of infant crying, stress and stimulation in childhood and exclusion from school.