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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... and all its members , the schools and all their members and particularly ' the lads ' of Hammertown Boys . They made the research possible . Key to transcripts ( - Background information Pause co Material viii Acknowledgements.
... and all its members , the schools and all their members and particularly ' the lads ' of Hammertown Boys . They made the research possible . Key to transcripts ( - Background information Pause co Material viii Acknowledgements.
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... possible that the group selected was typical of the working class in an industrial area , and that the educational provision it enjoyed was as good as , if not slightly better than , any available in similar British contexts . An added ...
... possible that the group selected was typical of the working class in an industrial area , and that the educational provision it enjoyed was as good as , if not slightly better than , any available in similar British contexts . An added ...
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... possible , all groups were in the same school year , were friendship groups , and were selected for their likelihood of leaving school at the statutory minimum leaving age of sixteen . In the case of the high status grammar school this ...
... possible , all groups were in the same school year , were friendship groups , and were selected for their likelihood of leaving school at the statutory minimum leaving age of sixteen . In the case of the high status grammar school this ...
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