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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954748303321

Autore

Ward Michael R.M

Titolo

From Labouring to Learning : Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization / / by Michael R.M. Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

9781137441751

1137441755

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, , 2524-6453

Classificazione

EDU025000EDU038000SOC018000SOC050000

Disciplina

370.9429

Soggetti

Sex

Educational sociology

Social structure

Equality

Education, Higher

Gender Studies

Sociology of Education

Social Structure

Higher Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue1. Introduction2. The South Wales Valleys: History, Modernity and Masculinities3. The Valley Boiz: Re-Traditionalising Masculinity4. The Geeks: The Performance of Studious Working-Class Masculinities5. The Emos: Alternative Masculinities?6. 'He's Got the Pussy, We've Just Got the Nuts': Working-Class Masculinities in Vocational Education and Training Courses7. Jimmy the Chameleon: Multiple Performances of Self8. Conclusion: Growing Up into Uncertain Futures.

Sommario/riassunto

Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book Prize This book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a de-industrial community and challenges commonly held



representations that often appear in the media and in policy discourses which portray them as feckless, out of control, educational failures and lacking aspiration. Ward argues that for a group of young men in a community of social and economic deprivation, expectations and transitions to adulthood are framed through the industrial legacy of geographically and historically shaped class and gender codes. These codes have an impact on what it means to be a man and what behaviour is deemed acceptable and what is not.