Class in Education: Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity

by Deborah Kelsh

Book Overview

In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural carnival of lifestyles, consumptions, tastes, prestige and desire, or obscures social conflicts through technicist accounts of incomes and jobs.

Class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415846609
• ISBN13: 9780415846608
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"