Urban Youth and Education
ISBN: 9780335223824 | 0335223826
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Open University Press
Pub. Date: 6/1/2010
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How can we understand the educational disengagement of urban, working-class young people? What role do schools and education policies play in these young people's difficult relationships with education? How might schools help to support and engage urban youth? This book critically engages with contemporary notions of 'at risk' youth. It explores the complexity of urban young people's relationships with education and schooling and discusses strategies for addressing these issues.Drawing on a two year study of urban 14-16 year olds, educational p... MORE
| Series editors' preface | p. vi |
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Social exclusion, risk and urban schools | p. 1 |
| 'The Street', 'the estate' and 'my trainers': social class and urban education | p. 23 |
| Entangled identities: 'race', ethnicity and schooling | p. 38 |
| 'Responsible boys' and 'glamorous girls'? Gender and schooling | p. 56 |
| Aspirations and 'the future' | p. 78 |
| Respect, r... MORE | p. 98 |
| Choice or coercion? Policies to promote educational engagement | p. 115 |
| Conclusions | p. 128 |
| Glossary | p. 136 |
| Young people interviewed | p. 138 |
| Educational professionals interviewed | p. 140 |
| References | p. 142 |
| Index | p. 157 |
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Louise Archer is Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London, UK. Her research focuses on educational identities and inequalities of race, social class and gender.
Heather Mendick is Senior Lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is author of Masculinities in Mathematics (Open University Press, 2006)
Sumi Hollingworth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University, UK.
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