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Author_Amanda Palmer
Black Girls
Black Pupils
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Class Achiever
classroom ethnography
comprehensive school pupil attitudes
educational inequality
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Female Friendship Groups
Fireman
Full Time Permanent Work
Local Careers Office
Middle Class Achiever
Middle Class Pupils
Multi-Cultural Education
Opposite Sex
Ordinary Kids
race and gender dynamics
Racist Humour
Shop Work
social stratification
sociology of education
Teacher Classroom Control
teacher student interaction
UK Average
West Indian Origin
White Pupils
Working Class Achiever
Working Class Informants
Working Class Pupils
Young Man
Youth Training Scheme
YTS Placements
Product details
- ISBN 9781138348035
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1998, this volume is based upon an ethnographic study of white and black in a mixed comprehensive school conducted during the 1980s and explores differentiation in the classroom, looking at gender, colour and class differences within groups of students. The findings are discussed in the light of the strong debate within the sociology of education that took place during the 1970s and 1980s concerning academic achievement and underachievement. Amanda Palmer reveals, in contribution to this debate, that class origins played a primary role in the formation of pupils’ attitudes towards school and that class, race and gender were involved in how teachers reacted to pupils
