Beachside Comprehensive: A Case-Study of Secondary Schooling - Brossura

Ball, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521298784 ISBN 13: 9780521298780

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

This important account of the experiences of schooling of the pupils in a single comprehensive school is based on three years' field work which Stephen J. Ball spent as participant observer at 'Beachside Comprehensive'. First published in 1981, it is an institutional study in the tradition of Colin Lacey's Hightown Grammar and David Hargreaves' Social Relations in a Secondary School, and provides a deep and dynamic portrayal of a school in the process of radical change. Dr Ball raises important questions about the practice of comprehensive education through a detailed examination of the processes of selection and socialsation experienced by two cohorts of pupils moving through the school, one banded and the other taught in mixed-ability classes. This also reveals the way in which teachers confronted the problems of teaching mixed-ability classes and illustrates the enormous gap which existed between the rhetoric and the reality of comprehensive education. The book will be of interest to teachers and students of sociology and education, to school teachers and others concerned about the organisation of schools and educational policy.

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Descrizione del libro:

This important account of the experiences of schooling of the pupils in a single comprehensive school is based on three years' field work which Stephen J. Ball spent as participant observer at 'Beachside Comprehensive'.

Contenuti:

List of illustrations; Foreword Colin Lacey; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Comprehensive education: theory and practice; 2. Banding, identity and experience; 3. Two case studies of banded forms; 4. Adolescents, social life and school life; 5. Subject-option choice: the selection of knowledge and the management of pupils; 6. Mixed-ability: innovation and debate; 7. Mixed-ability: implementation and change; 8. Mixed-ability and banding compared; 9. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521298784
• ISBN 13: 9780521298780
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352