I don't think that does leave you, because it's about where you come from
Exploring Class in the Classroom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Kirk (0000-0002-7792-3191, London Metropolitan University, corresponding author), John Kirk (London Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-66 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.1686 |
| OpenAlex | W2087120143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article examines a teacher identity through the context of class background and habitus. It considers the significance of class transition, probing how a teacher's working-class history informs and helps define the emergence and consolidation of a teacher identity - to shape what is called here a particular 'teacherly self.' It explores some of the difficulties the working-class actor may experience on entering a largely middle-class profession. This transitional experience has generally gone by the term upward mobility, but the word mobility, with its largely favourable connotations of positive movement, is substituted for the notion of transition, which suggests a more complex and complicated process. The article shows how a working-class background informs class practice; in particular, how a class structure of feeling shapes attitudes and approaches to working-class pupils and their needs. By using oral history methods and aspects of narrative theory, the article seeks to underline how the continued significance of class finds complex expression in British culture
Aesthetics · Class analysis · Cultural capital · Epistemology · Feeling · Habitus · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Working class · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Culture and the Public Sphere
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Class, Culture and Social Change
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Justice Interruptus
Formations of Class and Gender
The Moral Significance of Class
A touch of class
Battling through the system
The personal and professional selves of teachers
Textures of Class in the Context of Schooling
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |