Overview
This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critical ethnographic methods with participatory and visual research, it foregrounds the experiences and recollections of working class adults in relation to their past schooling. Drawing upon her own lived experiences, Jones theorises the experiences of her participants using an analysis of Marxist, Bourdieusian and Freirean frameworks to uncover relations of power and illustrate how schooling has reduced individual agency and sustained lived inequalities. By creating space for a Visual Intervention within Critical Ethnography (VICE) alongside her analysis of class and society, Jones successfully illuminates that working class struggles are not permanent, and that agency can be activated. The book also addresses an important need by centring research from the lived educational experiences of the working class, and, in particular, working class adults. Making a unique theoretical and methodological contribution using an innovative combined methodology approach, the text ultimately highlights the potential of empowering disadvantaged individuals by raising critical consciousness. Though it is focused on the experiences of adults, this book has important understandings for all sectors of education and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in the sociology of education, research methods in education, social inequality, social class and education politics.
Full Product Details
Author: Sharon Jones (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.220kg
ISBN: 9781032192222
ISBN 10: 1032192224
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 19 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book makes a fresh and much-needed contribution to the understanding of the education of the working class. It is methodologically unique and theoretically rich. Sharon Jones renews Marxist analyses of educational disadvantage and the role of education in the distribution of opportunities. Dr Spyros Themelis, University of East Anglia
This book makes a fresh and much-needed contribution to the understanding of the education of the working class. It is methodologically unique and theoretically rich. Sharon Jones renews Marxist analyses of educational disadvantage and the role of education in the distribution of opportunities. Dr Spyros Themelis, University of East Anglia
Author Information
Sharon Jones completed her PhD in the Sociology of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
