Overview
- Provides a different perspective on what it means to ‘play the game’ of schooling in disadvantaged communities
- Based on a study of one secondary school located in a highly disadvantaged community within Australia
- The school provides a window through which the possibilities of schooling in disadvantaged communities are explored
- Designed to stimulate understanding of the work of Bourdieu and a Bourdieuian approach to research
- Includes the voices of three significant groups in education: teachers, parents and students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Based on a study of one secondary school located in a disadvantaged community in Australia, this book provides a different perspective on what it means to ‘play the game’ of schooling. Drawing on the perspectives of teachers, parents and students, this book is a window through which to explore the possibilities of schooling in disadvantaged communities. The authors contend that teachers, parents and students themselves are all involved in the game of reproducing disadvantage in schooling, but similarly, they can play a part in opening up opportunities for change to enhance learning for marginalised students. Rather than only attempting to transform students, teachers should be also be concerned to transform schooling; to provide educational opportunities that transform the life experiences of and open up opportunities for all young people, especially those disadvantaged by poverty and marginalised by difference. The book is also designed to stimulate understanding of the work of Bourdieu as well as of a Bourdieuian approach to research. Seeing transformative potential in his theoretical constructs, it airs the possibility that schools can be more than mere reproducers of society.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Schooling in Disadvantaged Communities
Book Subtitle: Playing the Game from the Back of the Field
Authors: Carmen Mills, Trevor Gale
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3344-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3343-7Published: 12 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9175-6Published: 02 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3344-4Published: 23 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 136
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education