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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299527203321

Autore

Ingram Nicola

Titolo

Working-Class Boys and Educational Success : Teenage Identities, Masculinities and Urban Schooling / / by Nicola Ingram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-40159-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 244 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, , 2524-6445

Disciplina

370.81

Soggetti

Gender identity in education

Teaching

Educational sociology

Schools

Gender and Education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Sociology of Education

Schools and Schooling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. The Class Feeling -- Chapter 2. Success, Class, and Masculinities -- Chapter 3. Negotiating with Bourdieu -- Chapter 4. Researching with Working-Class Teenage Boys: A Working-Class Feminist Approach -- Chapter 5. Systemic Social Segregation -- Chapter 6. Congruent and Discordant Habitus -- Chapter 7. Negotiating Habitus -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success. Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, some working-class boys are engaged with education, are motivated to succeed and have high aspirations. However, the structures of schooling in a society where working class-ness is seen as feckless, tasteless and cultureless make the processes of becoming successful more challenging than they need to be. This



volume reveals the unique processes of reconciling success and identities for individual working-class boys, and the important role schools have to play in this negotiation. Highly relevant to those engaged in teacher training in socially unequal societies, this book will also appeal to practitioners, sociologists of education, scholars of social justice and Bourdieusian theorists.