Tangled Up in School - Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process

An ethnography of one school--viewed as an intersection in social space, a knot in a web of practices that stretch into complex systems beginning and ending outside the school.

List of contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Adults at Elementary School. A Tangle of Cities, Corporations, and Kids. Neighborhood Intersections. Intersections of Bodies and Spaces at School. Intersections of Kids, Signs, and Popular Culture. Loose Ends. Fieldwork as an Intersection. References.

About the author

Nespor, Jan

Product details

• Authors: Jan Nespor, Nespor Jan
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9780805826524
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2652-4
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 557 g
• Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Schools, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General