Louts and Legends - Male Youth Culture in an Inner-City School

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on the text

Preface

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Youth culture: a case study

PART II: MALE YOUTH CULTURE IN AN INNER-CITY SCHOOL

2. The competitors

3. Australians too

4. The ways men act

5. Winners and losers

PART III: CONCLUSION

6. Youth culture, education and social policy

Appendix: Researchers and subjects

Lexicon of cultural terms

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Jim Walker PhD teaches education at the University of Sydney and is the author of works on educational policy and the curriculum. He is putting the finishing touches to his next book, Learning Culture: Teachers and students in an inner city school.

Summary

Louts and Legends is a detailed depiction of four groups of young men in their last years of school and beyond, recording their ways of life, their responses to school and teachers, and their experience of job-seeking, employment, unemployment, further education and training.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Hunt, J. C. Walker, J.C. Walker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718626
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71862-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Australia, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education