Working-Class Boys and Educational Success Teenage Identities, Masculinities and Urban Schooling /

• Main Author: Ingram, Nicola (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education,
• Subjects: Gender identity in education.; Teaching.; Educational sociology.; Schools.; Gender and Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Sociology of Education.; Schools and Schooling.

This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success. Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, some...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Class Feeling
• Chapter 2. Success, Class, and Masculinities
• Chapter 3. Negotiating with Bourdieu
• Chapter 4. Researching with Working-Class Teenage Boys: A Working-Class Feminist Approach
• Chapter 5. Systemic Social Segregation
• Chapter 6. Congruent and Discordant Habitus
• Chapter 7. Negotiating Habitus
• Chapter 8. Conclusion.