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This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalization and cooperation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity.

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Tuula Gordon is in the Department of Women's Studies at University of Tampere. Janet Holland is in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at South Bank University, London. Elina Lahelma is in the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki.

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