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 Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Learning to labour How working class kids get working class jobs PAUL E. WILLIS Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1978 by Saxon House Teakfield ...
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Learning to labour How working class kids get working class jobs PAUL E. WILLIS Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1978 by Saxon House Teakfield ...
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How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. First published 1978 by Saxon House Teakfield Limited Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square , Milton Park , Abingdon , Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third AT ne , New York , NY 10017 ...
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. First published 1978 by Saxon House Teakfield Limited Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square , Milton Park , Abingdon , Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third AT ne , New York , NY 10017 ...
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How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Acknowledgements Thanks to the help , advice , encouragement and example of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart . Thanks to the people also who have read and substantially commented ...
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Acknowledgements Thanks to the help , advice , encouragement and example of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart . Thanks to the people also who have read and substantially commented ...
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How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Key to transcripts ( - Background information Pause co Material edited out Unidentified speaker Transcription from different discussion follows From field notes , not ...
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Key to transcripts ( - Background information Pause co Material edited out Unidentified speaker Transcription from different discussion follows From field notes , not ...
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How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Individuals cannot gain mastery over their own social interconnections before they have created them . But it is an insipid notion to conceive of this merely objective bond as a ...
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis. Individuals cannot gain mastery over their own social interconnections before they have created them . But it is an insipid notion to conceive of this merely objective bond as a ...
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