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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... how these ' choices ' come about and are defined in the first place . A linked and subsidiary aim of the book is to examine important and central aspects of working class culture through the concrete study of 1 1 Introduction.
... how these ' choices ' come about and are defined in the first place . A linked and subsidiary aim of the book is to examine important and central aspects of working class culture through the concrete study of 1 1 Introduction.
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... comes to be subjectively understood and objectively applied and their interrelationships is of profound significance for the type of society which is produced and the particular nature and formation of its classes . These processes help ...
... comes to be subjectively understood and objectively applied and their interrelationships is of profound significance for the type of society which is produced and the particular nature and formation of its classes . These processes help ...
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... come to take a hand in their own damnation . The tragedy and the contradiction is that these forms of " penetration are limited , distorted and turned back on themselves , often unintentionally , by complex processes ranging from both ...
... come to take a hand in their own damnation . The tragedy and the contradiction is that these forms of " penetration are limited , distorted and turned back on themselves , often unintentionally , by complex processes ranging from both ...
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... come off , she says , ' Take yours off as well ' . I said , ' You'll have to chop my finger off first ' . Why did she want you to take your rings off ? Just a sort of show like . Teachers do this , like , all of a sudden they'll make ...
... come off , she says , ' Take yours off as well ' . I said , ' You'll have to chop my finger off first ' . Why did she want you to take your rings off ? Just a sort of show like . Teachers do this , like , all of a sudden they'll make ...
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... Come and sit here with us for a laff , sidelong glances to check where the teacher is and smirking smiles . Frozen for a moment by a direct command or look , seething movement easily resumes with the kids moving about with that ' I'm ...
... Come and sit here with us for a laff , sidelong glances to check where the teacher is and smirking smiles . Frozen for a moment by a direct command or look , seething movement easily resumes with the kids moving about with that ' I'm ...
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