Examines a group of ethnically diverse students' critical exploration of the complex interconnections among working-class school careers, identity formation, and cultural practices within English educational institutions. Presents the case for "bringing back" social class as a significant explanatory variable of educational inequality…

Describes Mozambican factory workers' acquisition, experience, and use of literacy during socialist construction. Links classroom expectations with sociopolitical relationships, ideological practice, and persistent definitions of class, race, and gender. Describes literacy education as shaped by tension between competing educational approaches…