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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... Material edited out Unidentified speaker Transcription from different discussion follows From field notes , not transcription Individuals cannot gain mastery over their own social interconnections before ix Key to transcripts.
... Material edited out Unidentified speaker Transcription from different discussion follows From field notes , not transcription Individuals cannot gain mastery over their own social interconnections before ix Key to transcripts.
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... individuals proves only that the latter are still engaged in the creation of the conditions of their social life , and that they have not yet begun , on the basis of these conditions , to live it .... Universally developed individuals ...
... individuals proves only that the latter are still engaged in the creation of the conditions of their social life , and that they have not yet begun , on the basis of these conditions , to live it .... Universally developed individuals ...
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... individuals at the bottom end would scarcely rate a score for being alive , never mind for being human . Since these individuals are currently far from walking corpses but are actually bringing the whole system into crisis this model is ...
... individuals at the bottom end would scarcely rate a score for being alive , never mind for being human . Since these individuals are currently far from walking corpses but are actually bringing the whole system into crisis this model is ...
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... individual and the group , until it has been recreated in the context of what appears to be personal and collective ... individuals and groups in their own determinate context and where working class kids creatively develop , transform ...
... individual and the group , until it has been recreated in the context of what appears to be personal and collective ... individuals and groups in their own determinate context and where working class kids creatively develop , transform ...
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... individual and selected interviews with foremen , managers and shop stewards . Hammertown is first recorded in the Doomsday Book as a tiny hamlet . It is in the centre of England as part of a much larger conurbation . Like many other ...
... individual and selected interviews with foremen , managers and shop stewards . Hammertown is first recorded in the Doomsday Book as a tiny hamlet . It is in the centre of England as part of a much larger conurbation . Like many other ...
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