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 vi
... cultural forms and social reproduction Reproduction and state institutions 171 176 9 Monday morning and the millennium 185 Index 200 Preface This book arises out of a project financed by vi.
... cultural forms and social reproduction Reproduction and state institutions 171 176 9 Monday morning and the millennium 185 Index 200 Preface This book arises out of a project financed by vi.
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... cultural forms within it , and a practical contribution to the literature on the transition from school to work . Part II is more theoretical . It analyses the inner meaning , rationality and dynamic of the cultural processes recorded ...
... cultural forms within it , and a practical contribution to the literature on the transition from school to work . Part II is more theoretical . It analyses the inner meaning , rationality and dynamic of the cultural processes recorded ...
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... forms . We shall be looking at the way in which the working class cultural pattern of ' failure ' is quite different ... culture is not a neutral pattern , a mental category , a set of variables impinging on the school from the outside ...
... forms . We shall be looking at the way in which the working class cultural pattern of ' failure ' is quite different ... culture is not a neutral pattern , a mental category , a set of variables impinging on the school from the outside ...
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... culture in general and I was led to look at young non - academic disaffected males and their adaption to work as a crucial and privileged moment in the continuous regeneration of working class cultural forms in relation to the most ...
... culture in general and I was led to look at young non - academic disaffected males and their adaption to work as a crucial and privileged moment in the continuous regeneration of working class cultural forms in relation to the most ...
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... cultural articulation with their conditions that groups of working class lads 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 ...
... cultural articulation with their conditions that groups of working class lads 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 ...
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