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Christy Kulz - Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy - 9781526116192 - V9781526116192
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Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy

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Description for Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy Paperback. This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Ethnographies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116192
SKU
V9781526116192
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About Christy Kulz
Christy Kulz is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. -- .

Reviews for Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy
'Kulz's brilliant and chilling ethnography of Dreamfields Academy shows that students no longer merely learn to labour, as Paul Willis once put it, but rather education itself becomes a factory. Schools do not foster critical intelligence but rather make, shape and discipline young people in the doctrine and dream world of neoliberal capitalism. The book reveals the cruel ... Read more

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