UID:
almafu_9959235993202883
Format:
1 online resource (260 pages)
ISBN:
1-134-49703-2
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1-134-49704-0
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1-280-17717-9
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0-203-01862-1
Content:
Based on a study of 12 schools over a two-year period, this book explores issues of equality and power both in the classroom and in the staffroom. Through classroom observation, interviews with pupils and staff, focus groups and questionnaires, the authors examine classroom practice, grouping and streaming, peer group relations and attitudes to power relationships both between pupils and teachers, and amongst teachers themselves. They also look particularly at the different experiences of pupils in single sex and co-educational schools.The authors' findings offer an insight into the way sc
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Equality and Power in Schools: Redistribution, recognition and representation; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Setting the scene; Chapter 1 The equality debates; Chapter 2 The design of the study and a profile of the schools; Part 2 Issues of redistribution; Chapter 3 The Class Act: A one-act play in four stages; Chapter 4 The grouping process: selecting out, selecting in; Part 3 Issues of recognition and multivalent identities; Chapter 5 Girls' schools: diligence, surveillance and resistance; Chapter 6 Boys' schools: Peer regulation and sporting prowess
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Chapter 7 The complex cultures of co-educational schools: Diversity, silence and hegemonyChapter 8 The diversity deficit: Minorities and the recognition of difference; Part 4 Discipline and power; Chapter 9 Regimes of power and resistance; Chapter 10 Vertical and horizontal power: Teachers' experiences; Chapter 11 Inequality and the 3Rs-redistribution, recognition and representation; Appendix A: Tables; Appendix B: Figures; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-26806-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-26805-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203018620
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