Schooling and Social Identity
Learning to Act your Age in Contemporary Britain
This book examines the nature of age as an aspect of social identity and its relationship to experiences of formal education. Providing a new and critical approach to debates about age and social identity, the author explores why age remains such an important aspect of self-making in contemporary society. Through an ethnographic account of a secondary school in the south-east of England, the author poses three principal questions. Why are schools in English organised according to age? How do pupils and teachers learn to 'act their age' while at school? Ultimately, why does age remain such an important and complex organising concept for modern…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-38831-5
- EAN: 9781137388315
- Produktnummer: 33492406
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'448 KB
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Patrick Alexander is Reader in Education and Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is also Director of the Oxford Brookes Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development.
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