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21st Century Standpoints Ser.: Miseducation : Inequality, Education and the Working Classes by Diane Reay (2017, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBristol University Press

ISBN-10144733065X

ISBN-139781447330653

eBay Product ID (ePID)16038734467

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMiseducation : Inequality, Education and the Working Classes

Publication Year2017

SubjectSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Education

AuthorDiane Reay

Series21st Century Standpoints Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Passionate, provocative and deeply troubling, this book examines contemporary working-class education.... should be required reading for politicians of both the left and especially the right." Tim Strangleman, University of Kent "Excellent text, highly relevant and accessible to all." Caroline Lewis, UWTSD "Miseducation is freshly updated, and it offers a highly readable and compelling analysis from one of the very best educational scholars of our time. Highly recommended!" Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania, "Diane Reay's compelling analysis synthesises memoir, a wealth of personal testimonies and statistics to reveal a hidden story of Britain's education system. Her sharply argued book demonstrates why selective education is bad for all of us." Selina Todd, St Hilda's College, Oxford, "I'm sad that this second edition is still needed but thank goodness for Diane Reay's updating of this important and powerful book." Kate E. Pickett, University of York "Incredibly insightful and passionate - Diane Reay really does get class. Mandatory reading for anyone proclaiming greater equity in education." John Smyth, University of Huddersfield "An inspiring and hopeful book [which] commands us as educators to make schools places of nurture, creativity and inspiration, not places where fear of failing is the daily diet of all children, especially working-class children." Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin and author of Care and Capitalism and Critiquing Human Capital and Carelessness in Education, "I'm sad that this second edition is still needed but thank goodness for Diane Reay's updating of this important and powerful book." Kate E. Pickett, University of York "Incredibly insightful and passionate - Diane Reay really does get class. Mandatory reading for anyone proclaiming greater equity in education." John Smyth, University of Huddersfield "An inspiring and hopeful book [which] commands us as educators to make schools places of nurture, creativity and inspiration, not places where fear of failing is the daily diet of all children, especially working-class children." Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin and author of Care and Capitalism (2022) and Critiquing Human Capital and Carelessness in Education (2026), "Intellectually compelling and inspiring in the way it systematically exposes the myth of meritocracy in economically unequal societies. It will inspire those who read it to work cooperatively for social justice both in education and society." Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin, School of Education, "Miseducation would benefit anyone interested in social mobility and education in the UK... Reay's contribution to debates on education and social background is to personalise everyday working-class experiences of school and university, something usually absent from current discourse. This, combined with statistical evidence of the extent of inequalities, makes for particularly engaging reading." LSE Review of Books, "Passionate, provocative and deeply troubling, this book examines contemporary working-class education.... should be required reading for politicians of both the left and especially the right." Tim Strangleman, University of Kent "Excellent text, highly relevant and accessible to all." Caroline Lewis, UWTSD, "Incredibly insightful and passionate - Diane Reay really does get class. Mandatory reading for anyone proclaiming greater equity in education." John Smyth, University of Huddersfield, "I'm sad that this second edition is still needed but thank goodness for Diane Reay's updating of this important and powerful book." Kate E. Pickett, University of York "Incredibly insightful and passionate - Diane Reay really does get class. Mandatory reading for anyone proclaiming greater equity in education." John Smyth, University of Huddersfield "An inspiring and hopeful book [which] commands us as educators to make schools places of nurture, creativity and inspiration, not places where fear of failing is the daily diet of all children, especially working-class children." Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin and author of Care and Capitalism and A Critique of Human Capital and Carelessness in Education, "No one has done more than Diane Reay to confront the complex emotions in living class inequalities in education. Her heartbreaking volume bears damning witness to neoliberalism's contributions to the injuries of class." Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School "A must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the systemic mechanisms driving social inequality in education." Mieke Van Houtte, Ghent University, "Incredibly insightful and passionate - Diane Reay really does get class. Mandatory reading for anyone proclaiming greater equity in education." John Smyth, University of Huddersfield "An inspiring and hopeful book [which] commands us as educators to make schools places of nurture, creativity and inspiration, not places where fear of failing is the daily diet of all children, especially working-class children." Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin and author of Care and Capitalism (2022) and Critiquing Human Capital and Carelessness in Education (2026), "Diane Reay's compelling analysis synthesises memoir, a wealth of personal testimonies and statistics to reveal a hidden story of Britain's education system. Her sharply argued book demonstrates why selective education is bad for all of us." Selina Todd, St Hilda's College, Oxford "A tour de force. An excoriating and rigorous analysis of the class-riven English education system. Diane Reay is simply the best writer on education and social class that we have." Stephen J Ball, Institute of Education, University College London, "A trenchant portrayal of class processes in twentieth and early twenty-first century England.... a must read for all those interested in educational opportunities, the global economy, and the ways in which working class individuals and collectivities construct and live under conditions of massively intensifying inequalities." Lois Weis, State University of New York, University at Buffalo, USA, Author of Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class, "This searing critique of how schools and universities fail the working class and reproduce inequalities should be at the heart of contemporary debates on education." Andrew Sayer, University of Lancaster

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal370.941

Table Of ContentAbout the author Acknowledgements List of figures and tables List of abbreviations Introduction: a personal reflection One Why can't education compensate for society? Two The history of class in education Three Working-class education experiences Four Class in the classroom Five Social mobility: a problematic solution Six The middle and upper classes: getting the 'best' for your own child Seven Class feeling: troubling the soul and preying on the psyche Eight Conclusion Epilogue: thinking through class Notes References Index

SynopsisThis book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we can do to achieve a fairer education system., In this book, part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published in association with the British Sociological Association, Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century.The book addresses the urgent question of why the working classes are still faring so much worse than the upper and middle classes in education, and vitally - what we can do to achieve a fairer system., In this book Diane Reay, herself working-class-turned-Cambridge-professor, presents a 21st-century view of education and the working classes. Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book includes vivid stories from working-class children and young people. It looks at class identity, and the effects of wider economic and social class relationships on working-class educational experiences. The book reveals how we have ended up with an educational system that still educates the different social classes in fundamentally different ways and, vitally, what we can do to achieve a fairer system. Book jacket., SECOND EDITION COMING APRIL 2025 In this book Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, presents a 21st century view of education and the working classes Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book includes vivid stories from working class children and young people. It looks at class identity and the effects of wider economic and social class relationships on working class educational experiences. The book reveals how we have ended up with an educational system that still educates the different social classes in fundamentally different ways and, vitally, what we can do to achieve a fairer system.

LC Classification NumberLC5056.G7