Living on the Edge - Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling

LIVING ON THE EDGE – RETHINKING POVERTY, CLASS AND SCHOOLING

BOOK LAUNCH

Living on the Edge – Rethinking poverty, class and schooling

By Professor Terry Wrigley

9 January 2014

1 – 2 pm

University of East London

Stratford, Cass Building, ED4.02

Based on his new book (co-authored with John Smyth), Terry Wrigley will outline a long tradition of deficit thinking whereby children growing up in poverty, their families, and those who teach them, are held to blame for low achievement. The history of flawed explanations and faulty evidence includes genetic intelligence, poor parenting and low aspirations.

The material and cultural impact of poverty on children has been intensified and complicated in England through current Austerity politics as well as rigid curriculum standardisation and surveillance. The book also proposes a symbolic interactionist approach, drawing on Bourdieu and Goffman, to understand and respond to the complexity of relationships and (mis)understandings between teachers and students, or schools and communities.

Terry Wrigley, Visiting Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University,

Editor, Improving Schools journal

Co-coordinator of the Infamous 100 Academics letter: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296420/Revealed-Socialist-links-academics-trying-sabotage-Goves-reforms-school-curriculum.html

Details on the book:

Living on the Edge – Rethinking poverty, class and schooling

9781433116858

John Smyth and Terry Wrigley

Peter Lang

2013

239 pages

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Class in Education

CLASS IN EDUCATION

I looked at a copy of Class in Education: Knowledge, pedagogy, subjectivity edited by Deborah Kelsh, Dave Hill and Sheila Macrine yesterday. This is an excellent book in my view, and I urge to buy it and/or get your library to stock it!

Glenn Rikowski

Class in Education: Knowledge, pedagogy, subjectivity
Edited by Deborah Kelsh, Dave Hill and Sheila Macrine
Routledge, London & New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 0-415-45027-6 (hbk)
ISBN 10: 0-203-87903-X (ebk)

CONTENTS:

Foreword: E. SAN JUAN JR.

Introduction: SHEILA MACRINE, DAVE HILL AND DEBORAH KELSH

1. Cultureclass – DEBORAH KELSH

2. Hypohumanities – TERESA L. EBERT AND MAS’UD ZAVARZADEH

3. Persistent inequities, obfuscating explanations: reinforcing the lost centrality of class in Indian education debates – RAVI KUMAR

4. Class, “race” and state in post-apartheid education – ENVER MOTALA AND SALIM VALLY

5. Racism and Islamophobia in post 7/7 Britain: Critical Race Theory, (xeno-)racialization, empire and education – a Marxist analysis – MIKE COLE AND ALPESH MAISURIA

6. Marxism, critical realism and class: implications for a socialist pedagogy – GRANT BANFIELD

7. Globalization, class, and the social studies curriculum – E. WAYNE ROSS AND GREG QUEEN

8. Class: the base of all reading – ROBERT FAIVRE

Afterword: the contradictions of class and the praxis of becoming – PETER McLAREN

Further details: http://www.routledge.com/books/Class-in-Education-isbn9780415450270

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