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...
With education and social inequalities under scrutiny, this text provides a late-1990s summary of research into the key issues, as well as practical s...
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...
With education and social inequalities under scrutiny, this text provides a late-1990s summary of research into the key issues, as well as practical s...
How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth, the paths to social success can actually lie outside school walls.
Black Youth Matters presents a compelling, empirical picture of black youth who creatively respond to permanent school exclusion. Structural approaches to social stratification often set the terms of discussion around isolated narratives of individual "success...
How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in...
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism) this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural theories, seeks to offer a dialectical understanding of the constitution of black American and British life within the class division and social relations of production of the global capitalist world-system,...
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity i...