Description for Making Spaces
Paperback. An ethnographic, cross cultural study of everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalisation and cooperation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DNF; JFSJ; JFSL; JFSP1; JFSP2; JHM; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalisation and of co-operation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity. The concluding question 'who are the wallflowers?' is addressed through a critique of New Right politics and policies in education.
This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalisation and of co-operation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity. The concluding question 'who are the wallflowers?' is addressed through a critique of New Right politics and policies in education.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333664414
SKU
V9780333664414
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About T. Gordon
TUULA GORDON is Professor in Women's Studies and Social Sciences in the Department of Women's Studies, University of Tampere. She obtained her sociology degree at London School of Economics and her doctorate at the University of London. She has also taught at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Single Women: On the Margin, Feminist Mothers and Democracy ... Read more
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