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Reading, Writing and Resistance - Adolescence and Labor in a Junior High School (Hardcover)
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Reading, Writing and Resistance - Adolescence and Labor in a Junior High School (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
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A story of everyday life in an American junior high school,
originally published in 1983, this book demonstrates the ways in
which the school culture of early adolescence both supports and
denies the cultural and economic requirements of the parent society
that surrounds it. It explores this school culture in relation to
the local and national in political economy, to class, race and
gender, and to the needs of the state. The author approaches the
work of students in school as a labor process in the context of an
advanced capitalist society. He describes such typical junior high
activities as 'goofing off' and 'bugging the teacher' by examining
the meaning of these activities to the students engaged in them,
and brings acute observation and sensitivity to bear on the forms
of resistance that arise among the students, showing that this
resistance is a form of power which students exercise in the face
of their estranged status. The nature and consequences of this
resistance are examined in detail, especially as they relate to the
context of a society in which estranged labor, in one form or
another, is the dominant characteristic for most members.
Throughout the book, the subtle pressures, the cliques, the
vitality, the boredom and the ever-present humor of school life are
explored. By integrating the insights of Habermas with the theories
of Marx, the author is able to examine the tension between the
'reified knowledge' of the school and the 'regenerative knowledge'
of the students in a sensitive ethnography which captures the
student world in ways which have been missed in the past.
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