Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities

by Deborah Youdell

Book Overview

Looking across national contexts and drawing on ethnographic studies of schools in the UK and Australia, the book explores the implications of the contemporary education policy context and processes and practices inside schools for students as learners and for educational 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 mobilise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140205484X
• ISBN13: 9781402054846
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"