Michael R. M. Ward

From Labouring to Learning

Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization

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Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book PrizeThis 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 frame… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-44175-1
EAN: 9781137441751
Produktnummer: 19892249
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 207 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 747 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2015
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Michael R.M. Ward is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK and programme director for Education. His work centres on the performance of working-class masculinities within and beyond educational institutions. He is the author of the award winning book, From Labouring to Learning, Working-class Masculinities, Education and De-industrialization and the editor of Gender Identity and Research Relationships, and Higher Education and Social Inequality: University Admissions, Experiences and Outcomes. Mike is also an editorial board member for Sociological Research Online, the Journal of Boyhood Studies, and the British Journal of Educational Studies and co-convenor of the BSA Education Study Group.