Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities

This book looks inside the school to examine how every-day, school-level processes act to place particular students 'outside' the educational endeavour and argues for new strategies for thinking critically about and interrupting educational exclusions and inequalities. Looking across natio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Youdell, Deborah (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Subjectivity and Exclusion
  • Who's in and who's out? Inclusion and exclusion, globalised education policy, and inequality
  • Rendering subjects: Theorising the production of the Self
  • Researching Subjects
  • Researching subjectivity and educational exclusions
  • Names and practices: making subjects in/of school
  • Educational Exclusions: Bad Students, and Impossible Learners
  • Excluded White-working-class-hetero-adult-masculinity
  • Excluded White-working-class-hetero-(un)femininity
  • Excluded Black femininity
  • Excluded ‘specialness’ (White-working class-hetero-(hyper-masculinity)
  • Navigating Educational Inclusions and Exclusions
  • Included and excluded? Middle class-White-queer-high ability-alternative youth-culture/Working class-White-Black-hetero-low ability-mainstream youth-culture
  • Included learners, impossible girls: The incommensurability of Indian-ness and desirable femininity
  • Included students, impossible boys: The ‘racing’ and ‘specialing’ of (un-)masculinity
  • Intelligible impossibility: The (un-)feminine subject-hood of a ‘geeza-girl’
  • Good students, acceptable learners, intelligible girls: Class, race, gender, sexuality and the adornment of feminine bodies
  • Between good and bad student, between acceptable and unacceptable learner
  • Interrupting Exclusions
  • Practicing performative politics for inclusive education.