Ceri Brown

Educational Binds of Poverty

The lives of school children

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association! This book tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational prospects of disadvantaged children is through an increased emphasis upon a culture of control, discipline, regulation and accountability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781138291119
• ISBN-10: 1138291110
• Artikelnr.: 57044439

Autorenporträt

Ceri Brown is Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Under Achievement of Children in Poverty: Scoping the policy context 2.
The Educational Binds of Poverty 3. Clive: School life following relocation
in a single parent family 4. Liza: School life following family break-up
and relocation with father 5. Megan: School life as a highly mobile Irish
Traveller 6. Codie: School life after community relocation due to
unaffordable housing 7. Helen: School life following school change due to
bullying 8. Robin: School life with a hearing impediment and relocation due
to paternal redundancy 9. Unpicking the Binds: Learning (in) lessons from
those that don't