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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... continuous shallowing line of ability in the occupational / class structure we must conceive of radical breaks represented by the interface of cultural forms . We shall be looking at the way in which the working class cultural pattern ...
... continuous shallowing line of ability in the occupational / class structure we must conceive of radical breaks represented by the interface of cultural forms . We shall be looking at the way in which the working class cultural pattern ...
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... continuous regeneration of working class cultural forms in relation to the most essential structure of society - its working relations . Both sets of concerns in fact turn on the important concept of labour power and how it is prepared ...
... continuous regeneration of working class cultural forms in relation to the most essential structure of society - its working relations . Both sets of concerns in fact turn on the important concept of labour power and how it is prepared ...
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... continuous scraping of chairs , a bad tempered ' tut - tutting ' at the simplest request , and a continuous fidgeting about which explores every permutation of sitting or lying on a chair . During private study , some openly show ...
... continuous scraping of chairs , a bad tempered ' tut - tutting ' at the simplest request , and a continuous fidgeting about which explores every permutation of sitting or lying on a chair . During private study , some openly show ...
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