Making spaces : citizenship and difference in schools

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Making spaces : citizenship and difference in schools

Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, and Elina Lahelma ; consultant editor, Jo Campling

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 2000

  • : uk : hard
  • : uk : pbk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-226) and index

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Volume

: us ISBN 9780312226190

Description

This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalization and cooperation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity.
Volume

: uk : hard ISBN 9780333664407

Description

This book uses an ethnographic, cross cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalisation and cooperation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity. The concluding question "who are the wallflowers?" is addressed through a critique of New Right politics and policies in education. The work is of interest to those studying sociology, women's studies and education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Do You Wanna Dance - Individual Citizens - Space and Place for Markets: New Right and the Restructuring of Education - Curricula for Nations - Invitation to the Dance: Exploring Everyday Life in Schools - One Two Three, One Two Three: The Official School - Stepping Here, Stepping There: The Informal School - 'Strictly Ballroom': The Physical School and Space - 'Twist and Shout': Bodies in the Physical School - Who Are The Wallflowers? - Appendix: Methods in Use - Notes - Bibliography - Index
Volume

: uk : pbk ISBN 9780333664414

Description

This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalisation and of co-operation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity. The concluding question 'who are the wallflowers?' is addressed through a critique of New Right politics and policies in education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Do You Wanna Dance Individual Citizens Space and Place for Markets: New Right and the Restructuring of Education Curricula for Nations Invitation to the Dance: Exploring Everyday Life in Schools One Two Three, One Two Three: The Official School Stepping Here, Stepping There: The Informal School 'Strictly Ballroom': The Physical School and Space 'Twist and Shout': Bodies in the Physical School Who Are The Wallflowers? Appendix: Methods in Use Notes Bibliography Index

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