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Making the Difference - Schools, families and social division (Hardcover)
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Making the Difference - Schools, families and social division (Hardcover)
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First published in 1982, Making the Difference has become a classic
in the study of education and of Australian society. Hailed on
publication as 'certainly the most interesting book written about
Australian schools in a very long time [and] arguably the most
important', it has since been recognised as one of the 10 most
influential works of Australian sociology, 'not just a major
argument, and a 'classic' point of reference, [but] an event, an
intervention in ways of doing research and speaking to practice, a
methodology, a textual style. it was designed to be read by a much
wider audience than the standard sociological text, and it has
succeeded'. Making the Difference draws on a detailed study of the
schools and homes of the powerful and the wealthy, and of ordinary
wage-earners. It allows children, parents and teachers to speak for
themselves and from what they say it develops strikingly new ways
of understanding 'educational inequality', of how the class and
gender systems work, and of schools and their social roles.
'Equality of opportunity', co-education, and 'relevant and
meaningful curriculum' are all questioned, sympathetically but
incisively. Ranging across educational policy from system level to
the everyday experience of kids and teachers, from the problems of
schooling to the production of class and gender relations, this
path-breaking combination of theory, research and politics remains
engaging, thought-provoking, and relevant.
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