Disposed to Learn
Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus
Disposed to Learn explores the relationship between ethnicity and dispositions towards learning, with a focus on primary school students of Chinese, Pasifika and Anglo Australian backgrounds. The authors challenge the tendency towards the essentializing of ethnicity within multiculturalism to argue for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between culture and academic performance. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, they examine how home and school practices produce particular attributes that are embodied as dispositions towards learning - the scholarly habitus. These home and school practices entail different modes of discipline whic…
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Weitere Autoren: Noble, Greg
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-3006-8
- EAN: 9781441130068
- Produktnummer: 17017517
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 364 KB
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Megan Watkins is Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society/School of Education, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is co-author (with Greg Noble) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus.
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