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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... teachers ' unions have commissioned special reports ( 4 ) and have formalised arrangements for union support in excluding ' trouble - makers ' from class . Over half the local authorities in England and Wales have set up special classes ...
... teachers ' unions have commissioned special reports ( 4 ) and have formalised arrangements for union support in excluding ' trouble - makers ' from class . Over half the local authorities in England and Wales have set up special classes ...
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... teaching relationship in our schools , makes a critique of vocational guidance and suggests some explanations for the persistent failure of state education to radically improve the chances in life of working class kids . [ 7 ] There is ...
... teaching relationship in our schools , makes a critique of vocational guidance and suggests some explanations for the persistent failure of state education to radically improve the chances in life of working class kids . [ 7 ] There is ...
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... teaching and curriculum development programmes , and a whole range of new ' option ' courses were developed for the ' RSLA year ' . I made contact with the group at the beginning of the second term of their penultimate year and followed ...
... teaching and curriculum development programmes , and a whole range of new ' option ' courses were developed for the ' RSLA year ' . I made contact with the group at the beginning of the second term of their penultimate year and followed ...
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... teacher recently returned from secondment to a well - respected careers and counselling course . I also taped long conversations with all the parents of the main group , and with all senior masters of the school , main junior teachers ...
... teacher recently returned from secondment to a well - respected careers and counselling course . I also taped long conversations with all the parents of the main group , and with all senior masters of the school , main junior teachers ...
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... Teachers , Executive Report , ' Discipline in Schools ' , in 1976 Conference Report . ( 5 ) Reported in The Guardian ... teaching techniques , parental ' unease ' , the possibility of a ' core curriculum ' and ' ( educational ) ...
... Teachers , Executive Report , ' Discipline in Schools ' , in 1976 Conference Report . ( 5 ) Reported in The Guardian ... teaching techniques , parental ' unease ' , the possibility of a ' core curriculum ' and ' ( educational ) ...
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