This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case study material the author expands her assessment to analyze the way women's educational experience influences their involvement in their children's schooling.
This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case stu...
Thisbook examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children.It offersa unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness."
Thisbook examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low perfo...
"Theorizing Social Class and Education" presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the last decade both in the UK, and internationally. Moving from a narrow focus on class position and categorisation, to a much broader view on behaviours, attitudes, identities and practices, the contributors explore and theorize the ways in which particular individuals develop their perspectives and understandings of the social world, and the role education plays in shaping these.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the...
"Theorizing Social Class and Education" presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the ...
This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case study material the author expands her assessment to analyse the way women's educational experience influences their involvement in their children's schooling. The book examines the support of the mother in her child's schooling to reveal the part she plays in social reproduction and to recognize her centrality to an understanding of social class. The book should be of interest to undergraduates in the sociology of education, gender studies, and to...
This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case stu...
Building upon Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's classic text Education and the Working Class, a complex study of the working-class experience of social mobility, this book weaves together a number of interconnected strands of thought on education and social justice. Diane Reay's analysis spans both the details of individual lives and broader questions of how and why the working classes fare so much worse in education than the middle and upper classes. Through more than five hundred vivid accounts of the emotional life of class--including interviews with Steve McQueen, Mickey Flanagan,...
Building upon Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's classic text Education and the Working Class, a complex study of the working-class experience ...
This book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we can do to achieve a fairer education system.
This book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals w...
