Effectiveness, Difference and Sociological Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2932838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyn Yates (0000-0002-0646-2500, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-338 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0159630022000029821 |
| OpenAlex | W1965479604 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article addresses Making the Difference (Connell et al., 1982) as a research project, in the specific context of Australian education and Australian sociology. It argues that the form of its research and writing have been as influential as the argument itself, and illustrates these themes by comparing that project of the early 1980s with two more recent Australian projects of the late 1990s. It is suggested that Making the Difference was successful in illustrating class and culturally based inequalities in the form of Australian schooling, and in illuminating some gendered processes of that schooling, but that its proposal for an 'organic working class curriculum' was difficult and utopian in conception, and quickly overtaken by broader interests in school 'effectiveness', and political moves to 'third way' policies rather than class war. It is argued that the Queensland New Basics project illustrates some of the lessons of engagement and communication offered by Making the Difference , and also the pragmatism of this new political context; and that the longitudinal 12 to 18 Project attempted to build on insights about class and gender of the earlier work, but with attention to some of the limitations of the type of focus on class of that work
Class analysis · Curriculum · Epistemology · New class · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Social science · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Law · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |