‘Education and the working class’: a conversation with the work of Dennis Marsden and his contribution to the sociology of education
| Autor: | John Smyth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Sociology and Political Science
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Educational Administration and History. 48:275-289 |
| ISSN: | 1478-7431 0022-0620 |
| Popis: | This paper is both a careful analysis of a seminal piece of work in the sociology of education, as well as a passionate plea to revisit with renewed urgency, the way in which education continues to fail unacceptably large numbers of working-class children. Through closely examining the work of Dennis Marsden (with his colleague Brian Jackson) in Education and the working class, the paper argues that this pioneering work done in working-class Huddersfield the 1950s, remains a stoic statement of what is wrong with working-class education, and is as rich in substantive and methodological insights as when it was written in 1962. By taking some biographical slices of key contemporary scholars, in particular Stephen Ball and Diane Reay, who have themselves been prolific scholars in this field, the paper speaks to the central arguments of Marsden’s unique work through their biographies, while establishing the distinctiveness of Marsden’s contribution to understanding social class within the wider field o... |
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