Miseducation

This book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we can do to achieve a fairer education system.

About the author

Diane Reay grew up in a working-class coal-mining community before becoming an inner-city primary school teacher for 20 years. She is now Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and visiting Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with particular interests in social justice issues in education, and cultural analyses of social class, race and gender. She has researched extensively in the areas of social class, gender and ethnicity across primary, secondary and post-compulsory stages of education.

Summary

This book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden’s pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we can do to achieve a fairer education system.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Reay, Diane (University of Cambridge and LSE) Reay
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781447330653
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-3065-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: 21st Century Standpoints; 21st Century Standpoints
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories