The subject of this article is "The Royal Readers", a group of reading anthologies published in Britain by Thomas Nelson between 1872 and 1881 for use in elementary schools. The focus is not on their contribution to the teaching of reading but rather on how they functioned as the tools of an education system conceived primarily as an agent of…

This study is concerned with what happens when students bring conventional assumptions about education to an unconventional alternative school. By field observation and interview, the author examined how alternative schools change the conventional patterns of hierarchy, formality, and the press to achieve; the assumptions students hold about the…

Highlights the impact of recent state and employment changes upon the young British working class in vocational training. Argues that the displacement of work by vocational training is creating new and contradictory formations of masculine identities. Focuses on a group of low-achieving, white, working-class males' responses to this new context.…