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Direct linkRowe, Emma – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
This paper draws on David Harvey's theories of absolute and relational space in order to critique geographically bound school choices of the gentrified middle-class in the City of Melbourne, Australia. The paper relies on interviews with inner-city school choosers as generated by a longitudinal ethnographic school choice study. I argue that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Middle Class Culture, School Choice
Heley, Jesse – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
In part prompted by a recent spate of media reports this paper explores the emergence of a "new squirearchy" in the English countryside. In doing so, it aims to both illuminate a particular facet of rural social life and help reignite interest in the cultures of rural class. Whilst relationships between rural class and culture were a…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Social Life, Ethnography, Rural Areas
Jones, Stephanie – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2007
This article draws from a three-year ethnographic study of girls and their mothers in a high-poverty, predominantly white community. Informed by critical and feminist theories of social class, I present four cases that highlight psychosocial tensions within the mother-daughter-teacher-researcher triangle and argue that white, middle-class female…
Descriptors: Daughters, Social Class, Mothers, Ethnography
Gibson, Margaret A. – 1982
A study in progress investigating cultural and structural factors which affect educational opportunities for white middle-class and Punjabi immigrants in a California high school is reported. In the two-and one-half years since the project began, researchers have interviewed a broad range of students, parents, teachers, and administrators. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Anthropology, Educational Change
Schulz, Carol M. – 1975
An ethnographic sketch of a small, Midwestern, middle-class American community emphasizes the shared value system, the derived code of conduct and an analysis of the three levels of social interaction and their respective functions. Data were gathered over a two-year period of field work, including ten months of intensive observation of the town,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Standards, Censorship, Codes of Ethics
Peer reviewedFordham, Signithia – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Explores the impact of gender diversity on school achievement, using data from an ethnographic study of academic success among 33 eleventh-grade students in a Washington (DC) high school. The normalized definition of femaleness juxtaposed with a dominating patriarchy propels African-American females to resist images that assert their nothingness.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Ethnography, Females
