ERIC Number: EJ1044585
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Nov
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ISSN: ISSN-1365-4802
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Overcoming Stereotypes, Discovering Hidden Capitals
Beckett, Lori; Wrigley, Terry
Improving Schools, v17 n3 p217-230 Nov 2014
This article presents a model of teacher research supported by academic partners to develop a better understanding of the barriers to education faced by young people growing up in poverty. It critiques politicians' demands for teachers to "close the gap" for ignoring the cumulative intergenerational effects of deprivation. The authors explain how a simplistic "craft" version of teaching has tended to reduce initial teacher education in England to training in the pragmatics of curriculum "delivery" and policy implementation, leaving teachers theoretically and practically ill-prepared to deal with extremes of inequality. Finally, it presents a pilot research project designed to see beyond statistical labels and into the particularities of students' lives out of school, in order to reveal not only the realities of deprivation but also potential sources of cultural and social capital in their extended families and neighbourhoods.
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Barriers, Educational Opportunities, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Critical Theory, Teacher Competencies, Research Projects, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Achievement Gap, Profiles, Student Characteristics, Teacher Student Relationship, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Generational Differences, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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