Making Spaces: Citizenship and Difference in Schools / Edition 1

by NA NA, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma

Overview

This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalization and cooperation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312226190
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/02/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Tuula Gordon is in the Department of Women's Studies at University of Tampere. Janet Holland is in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at South Bank University, London.

Elina Lahelma is in the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Do You Wanna Dance?
• Individual Citizens
• Space and Place for Markets
• New Right and the Restructuring of Education
• Curricula for Nations
• Invitation to the Dance: Exploring Everyday Life in Schools
• One Two Three, One Two Three: The Official School
• Stepping Here, Stepping There: The Informal School
• Strictly Ballroom: The Physical School and Space
• Twist and Shout: Bodies in the Physical School
• Who are the Wallflowers?