'Ordinary kids' navigating geographies of educational opportunity in the context of an Australian 'place-based intervention'

Title: 'Ordinary kids' navigating geographies of educational opportunity in the context of an Australian 'place-based intervention'
Creator: Smyth, John; McInerney, Peter
Date: 2014
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/31796
Identifier: vital:5887
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2013.794304
Identifier: ISSN:1464-5106
Abstract: This paper addresses the vexed educational policy aspects of area-based interventions (ABIs) in neighbourhoods designated as 'disadvantaged' in an Australian context. We find that the way in which the policy of ABIs is supposed to operate and impact education is highly problematic. What we present instead in this paper is a much more complex process by which aspirations are formed, sustained, contested and maintained by young people who regard themselves as 'ordinary' and as being engaged instead in a process of navigating educational opportunities on the basis of resources available to them.
Publisher: Routledge
Relation: Journal of Education Policy Vol. 29, no. 3 (May 2014), p. 285-301; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110102619
Rights: Open Access
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; 1605 Policy and Administration; Critical analysis; Equity/social justice
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