Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Age in society: Framing social structure.- Chapter 3. The concept of age imaginaries.- Chapter 4. An archaeology of the recent past: Age and schooling in historical and contemporary social context.- Chapter 5. Learning to act your age in the classroom.- Chapter 6. Learning to act your age in the playground: Age and the social lives of secondary school students.- Chapter 7. Learning to act your age in the staffroom: Age imaginaries in the lives of 'younger teachers'.- Chapter 8. Conclusions
Patrick Alexander is Reader in Education and Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is also Director of the Oxford Brookes Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development.