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Title Schooling in disadvantaged communities : playing the game from the back of the field / Carmen Mills, Trevor Gale.
Author Mills, Carmen, author.
Publisher Dordrecht : Springer, [2010]
Copyright ©2010


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 4  Education P827.4 2010-M  

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Description ix, 136 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9789048133437 hardback
9048133432 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) and index.
Contents Locating the Research -- Coming to Terms with Social Inequalities in Education -- Student Achievement in Context -- Where Are the Good Teachers When You Need Them? -- What Should Effective Schooling Look Like? -- Competencies That Count -- Acquiring a Feel for the Game -- Letting Parents in on the Rules of the Game.
Summary Based on a study of one secondary school located in a disadvantaged community in Australia, this book provides a different perspective on what it means to 'play the game' of schooling. Drawing on the perspectives of teachers, parents and students, this book is a window through which to explore the possibilities of schooling in disadvantaged communities. The authors contend that teachers, parents and students themselves are all involved in the game of reproducing disadvantage in schooling, but similarly, they can play a part in opening up opportunities for change to enhance learning for marginalised students. Rather than only attempting to transform students, teachers should be also be concerned to transform schooling; to provide educational opportunities that transform the life experiences of and open up opportunities for all young people, especially those disadvantaged by poverty and marginalised by difference. The book is also designed to stimulate understanding of the work of Bourdieu as well as of a Bourdieuian approach to research. Seeing transformative potential in his theoretical constructs, it airs the possibility that schools can be more than mere reproducers of society.
Library Class Education P827.4
Subject Children with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary)
Transformative learning.
Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary)
Other Author Gale, Trevor, 1956- author.

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