Education, Inequality and Social Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Education, Inequality and Social Class write by Ron Thompson. This book was released on 2019-02-25. Education, Inequality and Social Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research. With clear explanations of essential concepts, this book draws on empirical data from the UK and other countries to illustrate the nature and scale of inequalities according to social background, discussing the interactions of class-based inequalities with those according to race and gender. The book relates aspects of inequality to the features of educational systems, showing how policy choices impact on the life chances of children from different class backgrounds. The relationship between education and social mobility is also explored, using the concepts of social closure, positionality and social congestion. The book also provides detailed discussions of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein, two important theorists whose contributions have generated thriving research traditions much used in contemporary educational research. Education, Inequality and Social Class will be essential reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students engaged in the study of education, childhood studies and sociology. It will also be of great interest to academics, researchers and teachers in training.
Social Class and Educational Inequality
Social Class and Educational Inequality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Class and Educational Inequality write by Iram Siraj. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Social Class and Educational Inequality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the impact that parents and schools have on disadvantaged children who perform against the odds.
When Grit Isn't Enough
When Grit Isn't Enough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Grit Isn't Enough write by Linda F. Nathan. This book was released on 2017-10-17. When Grit Isn't Enough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), an urban high school that boasts a 94 percent college acceptance rate, Linda Nathan made a promise to the incoming freshmen: “All of you will graduate from high school and go on to college or a career.” After fourteen years at the helm, Nathan stepped down and took stock of her alumni: of those who went to college, a third dropped out. Feeling like she failed to fulfill her promise, Nathan reflected on ideas she and others have perpetuated about education: that college is for all, that hard work and determination are enough to get you through, that America is a land of equality. In When Grit Isn’t Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity. Seeing a rift between these false promises and the lived experiences of her students, she argues that it is time for educators to face these uncomfortable issues head-on and explores how educators can better serve all students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income. Drawing on the voices of BAA alumni whose stories provide a window through which to view urban education today, When Grit Isn’t Enough helps imagine greater purposes for schooling.
Miseducation
Miseducation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miseducation write by Diane Reay. This book was released on 2017-10-11. Miseducation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book Diane Reay, herself working-class-turned-Cambridge-professor, presents a 21st-century view of education and the working classes. Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book includes vivid stories from working-class children and young people. It looks at class identity, and the effects of wider economic and social class relationships on working-class educational experiences. The book reveals how we have ended up with an educational system that still educates the different social classes in fundamentally different ways and, vitally, what we can do to achieve a fairer system. Book jacket.
Lives on the Boundary
Lives on the Boundary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lives on the Boundary write by Mike Rose. This book was released on 2005-07-26. Lives on the Boundary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The award-winning account of how America's educational system fails it students and what can be done about it Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient—these are the stigmas that define America’s educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail, Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate “problem” students into the world of language, literature, and written expression. This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to re-examine their assumptions about the capacities of a wide range of students. Already a classic, Lives on the Boundary offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with America’s future. "A mirror to the many lacking perfect grammar and spelling who may see their dreams translated into reality after all." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vividly written . . . tears apart all of society's prejudices about the academic abilities of the underprivileged." -New York Times
