Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain

by Evans, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780230553033
• ISBN10: 0230553036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast London, this book provides insight into class values and reveals the complex cultural politics of white working class pride.

Author Biography

GILLIAN EVANS is an associate of the Centre for Child Focused Anthropological Research at Brunel University, London, UK. She is currently a temporary lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and has recently been awarded a five-year RCUK fellowship to be held in the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Social Class and Education

Common Knowledge

Sharon: Common-as-Shit

Common Women: Working Class Values

Trouble on the Estates

Classroom Versus Street Culture

Tom at Tenter Ground

The Classroom and School

Who Rules the School?

Creating And Transforming Value

Pokemon and Peers

Place and Prestige

Notes from an Armed Robber

Gone Straight

Notes

References

Index

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