Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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...In effect, the school curriculum implicitly conveys certain ideas, values and concepts that generally belong to the ruling collectives, whether as a result of disability (Barton, 1996, 2009; CalderónAlmendros, 2014; Calderón-Almendros & Habegger, in press; Calderón-Almendros & Ruiz-Román, 2015; Graham & Slee, 2008; Oliver, 1990), gender (Arnot, 2008; Martı́nez, 2007), nationality (Arber, 2005; Esteve, Ruiz-Román, & Rascón, 2008; Torres, 2008; Van Dijk, 2007) or social class (Apple, 2004, 2005; Bernstein, 1996; Calderón-Almendros, 2011, 2015; Olmedo, 2007; Willis, 1981)....
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...In effect, the school curriculum implicitly conveys certain ideas, values and concepts that generally belong to the ruling collectives, whether as a result of disability (Barton, 1996, 2009; CalderónAlmendros, 2014; Calderón-Almendros & Habegger, in press; Calderón-Almendros & Ruiz-Román, 2015; Graham & Slee, 2008; Oliver, 1990), gender (Arnot, 2008; Martı́nez, 2007), nationality (Arber, 2005; Esteve, Ruiz-Román, & Rascón, 2008; Torres, 2008; Van Dijk, 2007) or social class (Apple, 2004, 2005; Bernstein, 1996; Calderón-Almendros, 2011, 2015; Olmedo, 2007; Willis, 1981)....
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...Willis (1981) argued how cultures of resistance are also created among students in the school context....
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...…2015; Graham & Slee, 2008; Oliver, 1990), gender (Arnot, 2008; Martı́nez, 2007), nationality (Arber, 2005; Esteve, Ruiz-Román, & Rascón, 2008; Torres, 2008; Van Dijk, 2007) or social class (Apple, 2004, 2005; Bernstein, 1996; Calderón-Almendros, 2011, 2015; Olmedo, 2007; Willis, 1981)....
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...For example, Paul Willis’ Learning to Labour has been long revered by anthropologists as an exemplification for how ethnography might represent “the embedding of richly described local cultural worlds in larger impersonal systems of political economy” (Marcus and Fischer, 1999: 77; see also: Ferguson, 1990: 12–13; Marcus, 1986: 173–188)....
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...No readymade solution exists for how to understand the salience and significance of ethnic identification in Rwanda today, but as Paul Willis (1977) cautions, an ethnography of visible forms is “truly only half the story” (p. 121)....
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...…children from the working classes fail at school, for various reasons: they do not master school cultural codes, do not have the same support at home and are often involved in practices of resistance towards school authorities (Apple, 1995; Bourdieu & Passeron, 1990; Coleman, 1966; Willis, 1977)....
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...Since at least the 1970s critical sociologists of education have argued that education systems are responsible for the reproduction of social and economic disadvantage (e.g. see Apple 1979, now into its third edition; Bourdieu and Passeron 1977; Bowles and Gintis 1976; Willis 1977)....
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...The behavioural patterns and culture exhibited by Crew members echo the ‘rough, non-conformist or street values’, which have been cited in distinguishing offending youth from the non-delinquent (Anderson, 1999; Jenkins, 1983; Willis, 1977)....
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...Young people ensconced in the rough variant of working class culture have been shown to ‘resist’ attempted state acculturation whether through formal education (Willis, 1977) or youth service provision (Gillespie et al....
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...Young people ensconced in the rough variant of working class culture have been shown to ‘resist’ attempted state acculturation whether through formal education (Willis, 1977) or youth service provision (Gillespie et al., 1992)....
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...Resisting state acculturation in deference to existing cultural forms is linked to the reproduction of lower class status (Willis, 1977)....
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