Miseducation

Inequality, Education and the Working Classes

Diane Reay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2025 | Second Edition
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7120-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Education is supposed to level the playing field, and yet for many working-class children inequalities in the classroom in fact deepen the divide. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are almost four times more likely to be excluded from school than their wealthier peers and many are struggling in an educational environment increasingly concerned with discipline. In this substantially revised and updated edition of her bestselling book, Diane Reay – herself working class turned Cambridge professor – investigates why we educate social classes so differently.


Drawing on extensive interviews with working class children and young people, Miseducation offers a sharp critique of how class identity, social mobility, and entrenched inequalities shape educational outcomes. It also examines the increasing focus on control and discipline in UK schools and charts the impact of policies like academies on working-class students. In a new chapter, Reay draws lessons from educational systems around the world, while a second presents clear recommendations for creating a system that supports every child’s potential.


Insightful and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of education and social equity.

Autor

Diane Reay grew up in a working-class coal-mining community before becoming an inner-city primary school teacher for 20 years. She is now Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and visiting Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with particular interests in social justice issues in education, and cultural analyses of social class, race and gender. She has researched extensively in the areas of social class, gender and ethnicity across primary, secondary and post-compulsory stages of education.

Inhalt

Introduction: A personal reflection


1. What is social class, and why it matters both inside and outside of education


2. The history of class in education


3. Class in the classroom


4. The mis-structuring of state education: the rise of the academies


5. Behaviour and discipline: education as control


6. Social mobility: a problematic solution


7. Lessons from other countries


8. Towards an educational system that develops all children’s potential


Conclusion: Still miseducating

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2025
• Reihe/Serie: 21st Century Standpoints
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Tables, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4473-7120-8 / 1447371208
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-7120-5 / 9781447371205
• Zustand: Neuware