Equality and Power in Schools: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation

by Lodge,Anne

• ISBN13: 9780415268059
• ISBN10: 0415268052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-27
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

The authors ofEquality and Power in Schoolsargue that promoting equality in education involves addressing the issue of power and its use and abuse. This book's findings are based on a radical study of twelve schools over two years that not only sought the opinions of teachers but actively encouraged pupils to participate by giving their views too. This book seeks to redress the balance with the authors concluding that creating a more egalitarian learning environment involves participation in the exercise of power.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi
List of tables	xiii
Acknowledgements	xv
Part 1 Setting the scene	1	(34)
Introduction	1	(2)
Outline of the book	3	(2)
The equality debates	5	(16)
Defining equality --- locating educational research within an egalitarian framework	6	(6)
Discussion	12	(1)
Inequality in education: ethical considerations	13	(5)
Putting the study in context	18	(3)
The design of the study and a profile of the schools	21	(14)
Aims of the study	21	(1)
The research dialogue	22	(1)
Specific methodologies	23	(5)
School profiles	28	(6)
Concluding remarks	34	(1)
Part 2 Issues of redistribution	35	(52)
The Class Act: a one-act play in four stages	37	(27)
Prologue	37	(1)
The Class Act, Stage 1: stratification through economic policies	38	(1)
The Class Act, Stage 2: school choice	39	(10)
The Class Act: Stage 3: `ability' grouping	49	(4)
The Class Act Stage 4: classroom climates	53	(1)
Epilogue	54	(8)
Closing remarks	62	(2)
The grouping process: selecting out, selecting in	64	(23)
Introduction: `ability' and grouping	64	(5)
The implications of `ability' grouping	69	(2)
Ability differentiation and labelling	71	(4)
Impact on relatinship and learning environments	75	(10)
Conclusion	85	(2)
Part 3 Issues of recognition and multivalent identities	87	(60)
The gendering of identity in signle-sex and co-educational school	88	(7)
Girls' schools: diligence, surveillance and resistance	95	(12)
Introduction	95	(2)
Surveillance and control	97	(5)
Academic achievement, stress and resistance	102	(2)
Nurturance and caring	104	(1)
Conclusion	105	(2)
Boys' schools: peer regulation and sporting prowess	107	(11)
Masculine identity and the culture of boys' spaces	107	(1)
Masculinity and sport	108	(4)
Peer policing of the body	112	(3)
Modes of social interaction in single-sex boys' classroom	115	(2)
Conclusion	117	(1)
The complex cultures of co-educational schools: diversity, silence and hegemony	118	(13)
Introduction	118	(1)
Classroom interaction: gender differences	119	(2)
Classroom: sanctioning boys	121	(1)
Social interaction in class	122	(1)
Gender awareness in co-educational schools	123	(4)
Silences	127	(1)
Conclusion	128	(3)
The diversity deficit: minorities and the recognition of difference	131	(16)
Equality and the recognition of difference	131	(1)
Homogeneity and segregation	132	(4)
Sexual orientation: invisibility and rejection	136	(2)
Travellers and racial minorities	138	(2)
Religious belief	140	(2)
Disability	142	(1)
Gender differences	143	(2)
Conclusion	145	(2)
Part 4 Discipline and power	147	(51)
Regimes of power and resistance	151	(15)
Introduction	151	(1)
Student essays on school	152	(1)
A question of respect	153	(2)
The desire for change: having your say	155	(3)
Differences between schools	158	(1)
Unfair treatment from peers	158	(2)
Privacy and surveillance	160	(1)
Confidentiality and labelling	161	(2)
Teacher are not always right	163	(1)
Conclusion	164	(2)
Vertical and horizontal power: teachers' experiences	166	(14)
Introduction	166	(1)
Teachers: powerful and powerless	166	(2)
The exercise of authority: control of timetabling and resources	168	(1)
Being outside the `in-group'	169	(1)
The impact of assertive colleagues	170	(1)
Who gets the top stream?	171	(1)
The status of the subject and the status of the teacher	171	(2)
Status within the staff hierarchy - issues for the young and the temporary	173	(2)
Gender and minority issues	175	(3)
Conclusion	178	(2)
Inequality and the 3Rs - redistribution, recognition and representation	180	(18)
Issues of distributive justice - the primacy of social class	182	(3)
The non-recognition of differences: equal status issues	185	(2)
Powerlessness - presence and effective representation	187	(1)
Gender - a paradigm case of a multivalent status	188	(6)
Conclusion	194	(4)
Appendix A: Tables	198	(8)
Appendix B: Figures	206	(3)
Notes	209	(5)
Bibliography	214	(22)
Index	236