Education and social class : How did we get to this and what needs to change?

Title: Education and social class : How did we get to this and what needs to change?
Creator: Simmons, Robin; Smyth, John
Date: 2018
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/166715
Identifier: vital:13468
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90671-3_10
Identifier: ISBN:9783319906713 (ISBN); 9783319906706 (ISBN)
Abstract: This chapter locates the classed nature of education within a critical socio-historical framework, and considers how questions of social class are played out not only in the classroom but also at the institutional and the systemic level. Historical and contemporary debates about the nature and purpose of education are used to challenge the status quo, and present an agenda for change. The chapter argues that re-engaging with social class as a key organising concept is necessary in order to understand the nature of contemporary schooling in western neoliberal societies such as the UK, and to re-imagine young people’s relationship with education. This, it is argued, is necessary to re-engage working-class youth in ways that are not only meaningful but also socially and economically just.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Relation: Education and Working-Class Youth: Reshaping the Politics of Inclusion Chapter 10 p. 233-259
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Education; Social class
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