Identity, Agency and Social Institutions in Educational Ethnography

by Geoff Troman

Book Overview

The prime focus on the social processes of schooling within educational ethnography has tended to marginalise or eschew the importance of other 'informal' educational sites. Other social institutions, such as family, community, media and popular culture, work and prisons are salient arenas in which behaviours and lives are regulated. They all interrelate and are all implicated in the generation, management and development of social identities and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762311444
• ISBN13: 9780762311446
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"