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G. Evans - Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain - 9780230553033 - V9780230553033
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Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain

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Description for Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain Paperback. .
Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast London, this book provides insight into class values and reveals the complex cultural politics of white working class pride.

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230553033
SKU
V9780230553033
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About G. Evans
GILLIAN EVANS is an associate of the Centre for Child Focused Anthropological Research at Brunel University, London, UK. She is currently a temporary lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and has recently been awarded a five-year RCUK fellowship to be held in the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the University of Manchester.

Reviews for Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain
'I was educated by this' - Dame Marilyn Strathern, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge 'A wonderfully enlightening and entertaining book. An anthropologist delivers an insider's account of life in inner London, and makes sense of the educational failure of working class white boys' - Adam Kuper, Professor of Social Anthropology, Brunel University ... Read more

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