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Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration - Educating white working-class boys (Hardcover)
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Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration - Educating white working-class boys (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
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In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive
disparities in academic achievement that are highly influenced by
ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the neoliberal
policy rhetoric, there has been concern over underachievement of
working-class young males, specifically white working-class boys.
The historic persistence of this pattern, and the ominous
implication of these trends on the long-term life chances of white
working-class boys, has led to a growing chorus that something must
be done to intervene. This book provides an in-depth sociological
study exploring the subjectivities within the neoliberal ideology
of the school environment, in order to expand our understanding of
white working-class disengagement with education. The chapters
discuss how white working-class boys in three educational sites
enact social and learner identities, focusing on the practices of
'meaning-making' and 'identity work' that the boys experienced, and
the disjunctures and commonalities between them. The book presents
an analysis of the varying tensions influencing the identity of
each boy and the consequences of these pressures on their
engagement with education. Drawing on Bourdieu's theoretical tools
and a model of egalitarian habitus, Identity, Neoliberalism and
Aspiration: Educating white working-class boys will be of interest
to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of
sociology of education, and those from related disciplines studying
class and gender.
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