As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and
strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how …

Internationally, boys from working-class backgrounds are often the most likely to disengage
from their formal education. Research on the educational experience of working-class boys …

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and
influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research …

This paper argues that processes of marginalisation experienced by white working-class
students provide insight into systemic problems with the English education system. White …

Schools serving communities experiencing poverty continue to be challenged as to how to
best meet the needs of their pupils. This article documents how educators in one school in …

This chapter highlights the contributions of WEB Du Bois to the animating assumptions and
analytic focus of both Whiteness studies and critical race theory. As interdisciplinary …

Bourdieu's adaptable 'thinking tools' allow researchers to interpret the specific and cultural
practices that may produce certain ways of being which can untangle explanations of class …

This chapter considers how white working-class boys negotiate neoliberal learner identities
through historically-constituted solidarist and communal values. Recent academic …

This study explored the school-to-prison pipeline phenomenon in NL through the K-12
school experiences of people who are incarcerated, a population of people seldom heard …

The underachievement of White British pupils eligible for Free School Meals is a persistent
local and national issue. Using data collected in three comprehensive schools, this research …