Factories for Learning: Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy - Brossura

Kulz, Christy

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ISBN 10: 1526116197 ISBN 13: 9781526116192

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated flagship secondary school in a large English city, to show how the accelerated marketization and centralization of education is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. The book also examines the complex stories underlying Dreamfields’ glossy veneer of success and shows how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields’ results-driven conveyor belt. Hopes and dreams are effectively harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality education

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Informazioni sull?autore

Christy Kulz is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

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This book draws on empirical research conducted at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary academy in a large English city. The author explores how the heightened marketisation and centralisation of education instigated through academisation is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies that receive funding directly from central government and operate as autonomous businesses. Academies’ impact on achievement levels has been hotly debated, but the social and cultural changes prompted by this model have received less scrutiny.

Dreamfields’ ‘structure liberates’ ethos claims to free students from a culture of poverty through hard discipline. Its headteacher assumes the role of business executive, saviour, pioneering cowboy and military commander leading a redemptive troupe of teachers who act as ‘surrogate parents’ salvaging ‘urban children’. With its regimented routines and outstanding results, Dreamfields has received praise from across the political spectrum.

This book examines the complex stories underlying the glossy veneer of success by exploring how persistent structural inequalities are concealed beneath the colour-blind rhetoric of aspirational citizenship. The book traces how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields’ results-driven conveyor belt, as raced and classed inequalities are reshaped in new ways, and spaces of democratic participation are foreclosed. The book also explores how the hopes and dreams of students, parents and teachers are harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526116197
• ISBN 13: 9781526116192
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 194
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