Making Spaces : Citizenship and Difference in Schools

Janet Holland

ISBN 10: 0312226195 / ISBN 13: 9780312226190

Published by Springer Nature B.V. Jun 2000, 2000

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Spaces : Citizenship and Difference in Schools
• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V. Jun 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312226195
• ISBN 13: 9780312226190
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 223W x 143H x 22D millimeters 223 millimeters width by 143 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 494 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.