Making Spaces: Citizenship and Difference in Schools

by Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma

Book 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, marginalisation and of co-operation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333664418
• ISBN13: 9780333664414
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"