Drawing on social closure theory, this study achieved a deep understanding of the perceptions and experiences of the first cohort of candidates passing through the Thuthuka support programme. Using semi-structured interviews as part of a qualitative approach, currently prevalent modes of professional closure were considered by taking the…

This article theorizes empirical data from an ethnographic project conducted in and around the economically disadvantaged suburb of Noble Park in southeast suburban Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). Exploring the politics around gendered identities of young people involved in the research, particularly Australian-Sudanese men, the authors theorize…

The 14 papers in this book discuss and suggest ways of dealing with the effect of poverty and discriminatory race relations on education. The bulk of them were developed for a series of 28 television programs, which later served as the basic unit for the 1966 institute for teachers on the disadvantaged at Tufts University. The subjects treated are…