Overview
- Brings sophisticated but accessible theoretical tools together with ethnographic data from real schools
- Demonstrates the inseparability of categories such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, disability, special needs
- Develops tools for understanding the relationships between schools, subjectivities, and students as learners
- Works across national contexts to show the wide applicability of these tools
- Problematises narrow understandings of inclusion found in contemporary policy
- Explores a new politics for interrupting educational inequalities
Part of the book series: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives (INED, volume 3)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Subjectivity and Exclusion
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Researching Subjects
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Educational Exclusions: Bad Students, and Impossible Learners
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Navigating Educational Inclusions and Exclusions
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Interrupting Exclusions
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About this book
Looking across national contexts and drawing on ethnographic studies of schools in the UK and Australia, the book explores the implications of the contemporary education policy context and processes and practices inside schools for students as learners and for educational inequalities.
The book uses tools offered by post-structural theory to read ethnographic data and show how the discourses that circulate inside schools at once mobilise and elide gender, sexuality, social class, ability, disability, race, ethnicity, religious and cultural belongings at the same time as they open up and close down 'who' students can be as learners.
In demonstrating these processes the book offers new insights into how these 'truths' about students and learners are created and how they come to be bound so tightly to the educational inclusions, privileges and successes that some students enjoy and the exclusions, disadvantages and 'failures' that other students face.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities
Authors: Deborah Youdell
Series Title: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4549-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4548-6Published: 05 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5484-6Published: 12 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4549-3Published: 20 July 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 207
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology, general