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First published in 1991, this title is based on a 4-year longitudinal study of pupils from two catchment areas from the first days of their entry to primary school. Using qualitative methodologies of depth interviewing and 'naturalistic' observation, it examines the social construction of pupil careers in the dynamics of classroom life.
List of contents
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Person Formulation in Early Schooling 1. Introduction: Social Interaction in Schools and Classrooms 2. The Process of Formulation in Early Schooling 3. Central Concepts in Person Formulation 4. Research Design 5. The Parameters of Person Formulation in Classroom Life 6. Normal Pupils: A Key Linkage in the Social World of Primary Classrooms 7. The Social Construction of Pupils in Relation to a Critical Boundary: Normality-Deviance 8. Identities in Interaction: The Construction of Identities in Classroom Episodes
Part II: Critical Cases in Emergence and Maintenance of Careers in Early Schooling 9. Episodes in the Emergence of a Deviant Career: Gavin (School A) 10. Episodes in the Emergence of a Deviant Career: Alan (School B) 11. Social Processes in Primary Classrooms: An Interpretive Framework from a Study of Deviant Careers 12. Normal Careers 13. Episodes in the Emergence of a Normal Career: James (School A) 14. Episodes in the Emergence of a Normal Career: Louise (School A) 15. Episodes in the Emergence of a Normal Career: Sally (School B) 16. Episodes in the Emergence of a Normal Career: Dawn (School B) 17. Social Processes in Primary Schools: Normality and Deviation. References. Index.
Summary
First published in 1991, this title is based on a 4-year longitudinal study of pupils from two catchment areas from the first days of their entry to primary school. Using qualitative methodologies of depth interviewing and ‘naturalistic’ observation, it examines the social construction of pupil careers in the dynamics of classroom life.
