Book Details

Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4549-3

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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.The book uses tools offered by post-structural theory to read ethnographic data and show how the discourses that circulate inside schools at once mobilize and elide gender, sexuality, social class, ability, disability, race, ethnicity, religious and cultural belongings at the same time as they open up and close down 'who' students can be as learners.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Gender / Nation / education / education policy / inclusion / politics / quality / school