• Introduction: Race as disadvantage-- White Privilege-- Not White enough-- Intersectionality: gender, race and class-- Race, schooling and exclusion-- Higher education and representation-- Racism and bullying-- Racial inequalities in the labour market-- Wealth, poverty and inequality-- Conclusions: Race, social justice and equity.
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Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy-making has increased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds. She also shows how certain types of whiteness is privileged, for example Gypsies and Travellers, despite their identity of whiteness, remain disadvantaged in society. Drawing on topical debates around education, the labour market, class and poverty, and supported by empirical data and conceptual underpinning, this important book examines the impact of race on wider issues of inequality and difference in society.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Higher Education in the UK and USA
• 3. The Research and Methodology
• 4. Theoretical Understandings of Identity in the Academy
• 5. 'Outsiders' in the Academy?
• 6. Climbing the Ladder: Promotion and progression
• 7. Inclusion, Equality and Social Justice
• 8. Conclusions.
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Recent research suggests that Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics remain underrepresented, particularly at senior levels in higher education, and tend to be concentrated in new, post-1992 universities. This book provides an original comparative study of BME academics in both the UK and the USA, two different yet similar cultural and political climates, considering issues of inequality, difference and identity in the Academy. Presenting a distinctive and engaging voice, the book discusses the complexity of race, gender and identity in the context of higher education, an area that continues to appear to be dominated by white, middle class values and perspectives. Chapters offer an up-to-date commentary on the purpose, failures and potential of research on race, gender and identity, and its place within contemporary education and sociology. The book broadens the understanding of educational research, considering both sociological and cultural discourse, as well as examining racialized and gendered identities from a theoretical and analytical standpoint. The book closes by offering suggestions for viable policy shifts in this area. The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics will be of key interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the field of education, as well as sociologists wanting to learn more about black and minority academics in higher education.
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• Introduction
• 1. Key Debates about Identity, 'Race', Gender and Culture
• 2. Theoretical Understandings of Identity
• 3. Identity and the Context of Higher Education
• 4. Educational Identities in the UK and Australia
• 5. Researching Racialized Identities
• 6. Student Understandings of Racialized Identities
• 7. Conclusions References Index.
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Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to the experience of students in higher education. In drawing together the experience of local and international students in the UK and in Australia, they examine the ways identities are understood and conceptualized within higher education in local contexts and on a global level. They consider the complexity of 'race', gender and identity in relation to education within the context that education continues to be dominated by predominantly white, middle class values and perspectives. Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education examines the extent to which education as a vehicle for change in the light of the controversial debates surrounding race and gender inequalities.
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• Chapter 1: Understanding accounts of Asian women in British society
• Chapter 2: Communities and identities
• Chapter 3: Race, gender and identity
• Chapter 4: Asian women's experiences in higher education
• Chapter 5: The Academy
• Chapter 6: Friendship networks and support
• Chapter 7: Families and financial support
• Chapter 8: Arranged marriages, education and changing forms of identity
• Chapter 9: Dowries: past present and future
• Chapter 10: Conclusions.
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More Asian women are entering higher education in the UK than ever before, and the number looks likely to rise. Their engagement with higher education reflects widespread changes in the attitudes and cultural expectations of their various communities, as awareness grows of the greater long-term value associated with continuing in education. Today they face different challenges and share different ambitions from those of their mothers and grandmothers. This book examines the experiences of young Asian women in higher education and the difficulties they face because they have no shared background of engagement with the British university system. It considers what motivates them to succeed and describes their strategies for building support networks that help them succeed with the university setting and actively shape their lives. Taking a theoretical and empirical perspective Kalwant Bhopal examines the diversity of Asian women's experiences in higher education and provides original and valuable insights into their experience. She explores the friendship and support networks that women turn to whilst at university as well as familial support. Especially striking are her findings about the effect of higher education traditional practices such as arranged marriages and dowries, and about the empowerment generated by changing the economic status of women within British Asian society. "Asian Women in Higher Education: Shared communities" offers a new and original perspective on the educational experiences of Asian women at university. It will be invaluable to teachers, postgraduate and undergraduate students and academics interested in the study of gender, ethnicity, identity and higher education.
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• 1. Gypsies and their identities2. Gypsy identity and culture: foundational accounts and the Academy3. Gypsy identity and culture: misrepresentation, misrecognition and deception4. Recognising the 'other'5. Case study I: inside the school gates: Gypsy families' experiences of education6. Case study II: Media representations of Gypsy life in election year7. The outsider in multicultural society8. The outsider in racist society.
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This is a scholarly account of the shaping of Gypsy identity in the UK, contextualised in terms of recent and historic tendencies to either misrepresent or misrecognise Gypsy culture. The book suggests that understandings of Gypsy culture are enhanced by understandings of how strangers are recognised within society and by understandings of how 'white' culture differentiates itself. It examines how multi-cultural society reproduces many of the same aspects of misrecognition and misrepresentation that might be more readily equated with less liberal regimes.
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• The study of gender and "race"-- gender and patriachy-- arranged marriages-- dowries-- domestic labour-- domestic finance-- education, employment and marital status.
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This text offers a study of South Asian women, providing empirical data on the issues apparent in South Asian women's lives, based upon an ethnographic study of a South Asian community in an inner city. The main aim of the book is to understand the intersection of gender and ethnicity with specific reference to this group of women. It examines their experience of arranged marriages, dowries, domestic labour, domestic finance and the influence of religion, education and employment upon their lives. In drawing upon such empirical data the book intends to offer a theoretical contribution to the area of feminist theory. It will draw upon the work of Sylvia Walby and offer an understanding of the concept of patriachy as experienced by Asian women as well as the influence of "race" and ethnic relations more generally The research indicates that "race" and culture make a significant difference to the forms of patriachy experienced by South Asian women. Rapid social change is taking place for some of these women in particular when theyreject arranged marriages, obtain a high level of education and enter the labour market.
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• PART I: Problems from the Margins: Young People, Social Control and Injustice.-
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Young People, Marginality and Social Control.-
• Chapter 2. Schools, Discipline, Racism and Disaffection.-
• Chapter 3. Employment, Discrimination and Stigmatising Discourses.-
• Chapter 4. Young People, Police Officers and the Barriers to Enacting Procedural Justice.-
• Chapter 5. The Judiciary, System Processing and Youth (In-)Justice.- PART II: Prospects from the Margins: Border-Crossing, Assets Generation and Emancipatory Practice.-
• Chapter 6. Assets-Based, Border-Crossing Approaches to Facilitate Youth Engagement.-
• Chapter 7. Emancipatory Approaches to Judicial and Penal Practices.-
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Future for Young People and Social Control.
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This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK. In particular, the book focuses on disadvantaged young people's experiences in education, in the labour market, with police and within the criminal justice system. It draws upon insights gathered by the authors in Scotland and England via in-depth interviews with, and observation of, young people in multiple settings and the barriers they come across in terms of justice, equity and inclusion. Deuchar and Bhopal present a range of creative and engaging case studies that illustrate where barriers have been broken down between young people and the agents of social control and elucidate upon how a sense of justice and inclusion has emerged. With its wide-ranging, multi-perspective approach, this study will be essential reading for scholars and students of sociology, criminology and youth studies, as well as holding appeal for policy-makers and practitioners.
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• 1. Educational Inequalities in Schools and Higher Education: An Introduction Kalwant Bhopal and Uvanney Maylor Part I: Difference, Diversity and Inclusion
• 2. Pale/Ontology: The Status of Whiteness in Education Zeus Leonardo
• 3. How Fair is Britain? Addressing 'Race' and Education Inequalities in the 21st Century Gill Crozier
• 4. Black Academic Success: What's Changed? Jasmine Rhamie
• 5. The Intersections Of Ethnicity, Gender, Social Class And An Itinerant Lifestyle: Deconstructing Teachers' Narratives And Thinking About The Possibilities For Transformative Action Robyn Henderson Part II: Understanding Difference: Policy and Practice in Education
• 6. Negotiating Achievement: Students' Gendered and Classed Constructions of (Un) Equal Ability Anne-Sofie Nystrom
• 7. Change AND Tradition: Muslim boys' Talk about Their Post-16 Aspirations Farzana Shain
• 8. Gendered Surveillance and the Social Construction of Young Muslim Women in Schools Heidi Safia Mirza and Veena Meetoo
• 9. Politics of Difference, Intersectionality, Pedagogy of Poverty and Missed Opportunities at Play in the Classroom Carl A. Grant and Annemarie Ketterhagen Engdahl Part III: Educational Inequalities: Identities, Inclusion and Barriers
• 10. "I Want to Hear You": Listening to the Narratives, Practices and Visions of a Chuj Maya Teacher in Guatemala Alexandra Allweiss
• 11. What Does It Mean to be the "Pride of Pinesville"?: Opportunities Facilitated and Constrained Amy Johnson Lachuk, Mary Louise Gomez and Shameka N. Powell
• 12. A Place to Hang my Hat On? University Staff Perceptions in Multiethnic New Zealand Edwina Pio, Ali Rasheed, Agnes Naera, Kitea Tipuna and Lorraine Parker
• 13. Intersectional Pedagogy: From Movies to the Classroom Elzbieta H. Oleksy
• 14. Intersecting Identities: Young People's Constructions of Identity in South-East Europe Alistair Ross
• 15. Conclusions Uvanney Maylor and Kalwant Bhopal.
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While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race, " class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many international contexts such as the UK, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Europe. Contributors investigate the ways in which dominant perspectives on "difference, " intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequality in schools and higher education. They emphasize the importance of international perspectives and innovative methodological approaches to examining these areas, and seek to locate the dimensions of difference within recent theoretical discourses, with an emphasis on "race, " class and gender as key categories of analysis.
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• 1.Themes and Concepts 2.Children's Beliefs about Care
• 3. Children's Families and Social Ties: Meanings and structures 4.Children's Accounts of Family Change 5.The Importance of Mothers and Fathers: Children's views and experiences 6.The Importance of Siblings 7.The Importance of Grandparents, Relatives, Friends and Others 8.Children's Contribution to Family Life 9.Children and Mother's Regulation
• 10. Conclusions.
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Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them. This book will be of interest to those working in education, social work, child care, counselling, social policy and childhood studies.
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• 1.Themes and Concepts 2.Children's Beliefs about Care
• 3. Children's Families and Social Ties: Meanings and structures 4.Children's Accounts of Family Change 5.The Importance of Mothers and Fathers: Children's views and experiences 6.The Importance of Siblings 7.The Importance of Grandparents, Relatives, Friends and Others 8.Children's Contribution to Family Life 9.Children and Mother's Regulation
• 10. Conclusions.
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Based upon empirical research, this book portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household and in their wider kinship networks.
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Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them. This book will be of interest to those working in education, social work, child care, counselling, social policy and childhood studies.
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• Introduction: Intersectionality and "Race" in Education: Theorising Difference Kalwant Bhopal and John Preston
• 1. The Unhappy Marriage Between Marxism and Race Critique: Political Economy and the Production of Racialized Knowledge Zeus Leonardo
• 2. The White Working Class, Racism and Respectability: Victims, Degenerates and Interest-Convergence David Gillborn
• 3. Interrogating Pigmentocracy: The Intersections of Race and Social Class in the Primary Education of Afro-Trinidadian Boys Ravi Rampersad
• 4. A Critical Appraisal of Critical Race Theory (CRT): Limitations and Opportunities Alpesh Maisuria
• 5. Race Slash Class: Mixed Heritage Youth in a London School Indra Dewan
• 6. "If You're Holding a Degree in This Country No-One's Gonna Ask No Questions": Intra-Categorical Intersectionality and BAME Youth Post-Compulsory Educational Achievement in the U.K. Andrew Morrison
• 7. Intersections of "Race, " Class and Gender in the Social and Political Identifications of Young Muslims in England Farzana Shain
• 8. Understanding Class Anxiety and "Race" Certainty in Changing Times: Moments of Home, School, Body and Identity Configuration in 'New Migrant' Dublin Karl Kitching
• 9. Beyond Culture: From Beyonce's Dream, "If You Thought I Would Wait for You, You Got It Wrong" (2008), to the Age of Michelle Obama Namita Chakrabarty
• 10. Intelligibility, Agency, and the Raced-Nationed-Religioned Subjects of Education Deborah Youdell. Conclusion: Intersectional Theories and 'Race': From Toolkit to 'Mash Up' John Preston and Kalwant Bhopal.
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Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical and theoretical research to examine the intersections of "race, " gender and class, alongside other aspects of personhood, within education. Contributors from the fields of education and sociology seek to locate the dimensions of difference and identity within recent theoretical discourses such as Critical Race Theory, Judith Butler and 'queer' theory, post-structural approaches and multicultural models, as they analyze whiteness and the education experience of minority ethnic groups. By combining a mix of intellectually rigorous, accessible, and controversial chapters, this book presents a distinctive and engaging voice, one that seeks to broaden the understanding of education research beyond the confines of the education sphere into an arena of sociological and cultural discourse.
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• 1. Contemporary Debates within the Sociology of Education: An Introduction-- Rachel Brooks, Mark McCormack and Kalwant Bhopal
• 2. Globalization and Sociology of Education Policy: The Case of PISA-- Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar
• 3. Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion-- Audrey Osler
• 4. School Type and Inequality-- Rita Nikolai and Anne West
• 5. We Know What They Earn, but What Do They Learn?: A Critique of Lifelong Learning through the Lens of Workplace Learning at the Bottom of the Service Sector-- Steven Roberts
• 6. In a Class of their Own: How Working-class Students Experience University-- Wolfgang Lehmann
• 7. Examining the (Em)bodied Boundaries of High School Locker Rooms-- Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson
• 8. Adolescent and Disabled or Adolescence Disabled? Education and the Construction of Gendered Identities Among Adolescents with Intellectual Disability-- Kagendo Mutua and Sandra Cooley Nichols
• 9. It's How You Look or What You Like: Gender Harassment at School and its Association with Student Adjustment-- Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, Katerina O. Sinclair, Riki Wilchins & Stephen T. Russell
• 10. What is so Liberal about Neoliberalism?: Schooling, Law and Limitations of Race-neutral Reforms-- Zeus Leonardo and Hoang Tran
• 11. Fear In and About Education-- Carolyn Jackson
• 12. Choosing Subjects: Sociological Approaches to Young Women's Subject Choices-- Heather Mendick
• 13. Towards a Sociology of Education and Technology-- Keri Facer and Neil Selwyn.
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The sociology of education is a vibrant discipline which has been responsible for a number of profound shifts in how we understand society. With innovations in the discipline sitting alongside more traditional lines of enquiry that continue to demand attention, this edited volume brings together some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society. Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education not only showcases the real strengths of the discipline but, by bringing together original, empirical work by leading scholars, it advances our sociological understanding, acting as a source of stimulation and debate for postgraduate students and academics, as well as a touchstone for undergraduates seeking to engage with the discipline.
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