Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus

by Greg Noble and Megan Watkins

Book Overview

Disposed to Learn explores the relationship between ethnicity and dispositions towards learning, with a focus on primary school students of Chinese, Pasifika and Anglo Australian backgrounds. The authors challenge the tendency towards the essentializing of ethnicity within multiculturalism to argue for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between culture and academic performance. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, they examine how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441177116
• ISBN13: 9781441177117
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"