Class, culture and education / / Harold Entwistle

• Autore: Entwistle Harold
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.1
• Soggetto topico: Educational anthropology; Educational equalization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published in 1978 by Methuen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CLASS, CULTURE AND EDUCATION; Copyright; Class Culture and Education; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Equality and education; The case for equality; The case for inequality; Meritocracy and equality of educational opportunity; Equality of results; Education and equality of moral worth; Equality: an educationally irrelevant concept?; Socialism or education?; 2 Education and social class; Some conceptions of social class; The school as a middle-class institution; Middle-class management of the educational system; The school and middle-class values ; Education and the value of future-orientation3 Education and the working class; The working class and the community school; Modern educational conservatism and working-class education; The modern radical and working-class education; Working-class education and the politics of non-literacy; 4 Culture and education; An educationally relevant concept of culture; The meaning of working-class culture; Working-class culture and the cultural mainstream; 5 Culture and the curriculum; Common culture and the curriculum; High culture and the curriculum; 6 Leisure and vocational education; Introduction ; Technological innovation and the withering of classLeisure education and the notion of the leisured class; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the concepts of equality, class, culture, work and leisure and explores their interrelationship through the discussion of some current problems, especially the problems posed for schools for the 'culturally deprived.' The debate about differential provision of schooling for different social groups is taken up through examination of the assumption that schools are middle-class institutions, and the claims and counter claims about the possibility of there being a common culture as the basis for a common curriculum in comprehensive schools. The concept of culture and, especi
• Titolo autorizzato: Class, culture and education
• ISBN: 1-280-68648-0; 9786613663429; 1-136-47049-2; 0-203-12866-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462344803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Education ; ; v. 174.