From Labouring to Learning (eBook)

Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization

Michael R.M. Ward (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2015
XIV, 207 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-44175-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the late 1970s, global industrial changes have affected the transition to adulthood, particularly for working-class men who now require more educational qualifications than previously to gain employment. This book examines how the young men in a de-industrialized community are adapting to this situation and the problems they face.

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Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book PrizeThis book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a de-industrial community and challenges commonly held representations that often appear in the media and in policy discourses which portray them as feckless, out of control, educational failures and lacking aspiration. Ward argues that for a group of young men in a community of social and economic deprivation, expectations and transitions to adulthood are framed through the industrial legacy of geographically and historically shaped class and gender codes. These codes have an impact on what it means to be a man and what behaviour is deemed acceptable and what is not.

Autor

Michael R.M. Ward is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK and programme director for Education. His work centres on the performance of working-class masculinities within and beyond educational institutions. He is the author of the award winning book, From Labouring to Learning, Working-class Masculinities, Education and De-industrialization and the editor of Gender Identity and Research Relationships, and Higher Education and Social Inequality: University Admissions, Experiences and Outcomes. Mike is also an editorial board member for Sociological Research Online, the Journal of Boyhood Studies, and the British Journal of Educational Studies and co-convenor of the BSA Education Study Group.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 207 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Community • Crisis of Masculinity • De-industrialization • Education • Erving Goffman • ethnography • Gender • learning • vocational education • Working-class • Young Masculinities
• ISBN-10: 1-137-44175-5 / 1137441755
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-44175-1 / 9781137441751