Sticking together!’ Policy activism from within a UK coal-mining community

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10106363
AutoresN Geoffrey Bright (Manchester Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas221-236
Fecha de publicación2012-06-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Educational Administration & History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0620 • E-ISSN: 1478-7431
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220620.2012.683395
OpenAlexW2089035589
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas13

This article reflects on some aspects of a doctoral ethnographic study of young people disaffected from schooling in a post-industrial space of ruin in a former coal-mining community in England. It considers how their experiences of resistance and refusal of schooling can, in the relational ethos of non-school support settings, come to speak back to hegemonic policy, particularly around ‘aspiration’. Focusing on the example of a young people's film project, data are assembled showing how a local culture of ‘resistant aspiration’ – itself affectively linked to sedimented traditions of insubordination – forms a site of activist possibility. In this site, the ground-level resistance of the young people and the more strategically informed interventions of a group of locally originating staff come together in a moment of policy activism that displays both scope and limitation

Decentralization · Ethnography · Ethos · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics