Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class JobsThis book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish. |
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Page 11
... Spanksy Wish we could call them first names and that ... think they're God . Pete That would be a lot better . PW I mean you say they're higher . Do you accept at all that they know better about things ? Joey Yes , but that doesn't rank ...
... Spanksy Wish we could call them first names and that ... think they're God . Pete That would be a lot better . PW I mean you say they're higher . Do you accept at all that they know better about things ? Joey Yes , but that doesn't rank ...
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... Spanksy If any of my kids are like this , here , I'll be pleased . This opposition is expressed mainly as a style . It is lived out in countless small ways which are special to the school institution , instantly recognised by the ...
... Spanksy If any of my kids are like this , here , I'll be pleased . This opposition is expressed mainly as a style . It is lived out in countless small ways which are special to the school institution , instantly recognised by the ...
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... Spanksy , sir ' . Of course individual situations differ , and different kinds of teaching style are more or less able to control or suppress this expressive opposition . But the school conformists - or the ' ear'oles ' for the lads ...
... Spanksy , sir ' . Of course individual situations differ , and different kinds of teaching style are more or less able to control or suppress this expressive opposition . But the school conformists - or the ' ear'oles ' for the lads ...
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... Spanksy I mean , what will they remember of their school life ? What will they have to look back on ? Sitting in a ... Spanksy plays about all day , he gets fun . Bannister's there sweating , sweating his bollocks off all day while ...
... Spanksy I mean , what will they remember of their school life ? What will they have to look back on ? Sitting in a ... Spanksy plays about all day , he gets fun . Bannister's there sweating , sweating his bollocks off all day while ...
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How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Will Spanksy Will ( Laughter ) about , I say , ' Oh great , school tomorrow , it'll be a laff , you know . You still never fucking come ! Who ? You . ( ... ) Fred You can't ...
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Will Spanksy Will ( Laughter ) about , I say , ' Oh great , school tomorrow , it'll be a laff , you know . You still never fucking come ! Who ? You . ( ... ) Fred You can't ...
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