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Finn, Patrick J. – SUNY Press, 2009
A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive. The classic, indispensable guide for teachers,…
Descriptors: Working Class, Economically Disadvantaged, Literacy, Role of Education
Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin – International Journal of Qualitative Studies, 1996
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…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Principles, Foreign Countries, High School Students