Class Consciousness, Power, Identity, and the Motivation to Teach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Lambirth (0000-0001-5354-4915, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-222 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2010.2.2.209 |
| OpenAlex | W2168900025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article reports on a small-scale research project that explored the class-consciousness and working-class identities of a small group of student teachers in a university in south-east England. It describes and uses classic Marxist perspectives and sociological theory as an analytical framework to interpret the views of eight student teachers who provide their perspectives in a series of in-depth interviews. It is argued that these student teachers' identities and class experiences have sculpted their motivations to become teachers and that the form of class-consciousness that they exhibit ultimately acts to mould attitudes and perspectives that suit the objectives of twenty-first-century primary education in a capitalist society. Power relations are played out through the struggle between the potential social power that working-class-conscious teachers possess and the forms of professional labour power that are fostered through initial teacher education courses and the habitus from which these students emerge
Aesthetics · Class (philosophy · Class consciousness · Consciousness · Cultural capital · Epistemology · Ethnography · Habitus · Identity (music · Marxist philosophy · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Power structure · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Working class · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
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Louts and Legends
Learning to Labour
Revolutionary Pedagogy in Post‐revolutionary Times
The class structure of the advanced societies.
Learning to Labor
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Thought of Karl Marx
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
The cultural formation of teachers' class consciousness
The Responsible Anarchist
Protests by Pupils
From Nerds to Normals
Leon Trotsky on Literature and Art
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
The social space and the genesis of groups
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |