1st Edition
Bottom Set Citizen Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving
Introduction
1. You have never been to this place
2. There is no democracy in childhood
3. Meritocracy and its allegiance to the empire
4. Knowledge and humiliation in schools
5. When knowledge does not pay
6. The rise of the Bottom set citizen
7. ‘It never did me any harm’: Some BSC exemplars
Biography
Paula Ambrossi is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, University College London. Her experience as a Modern Foreign Languages teacher in secondary education, followed by almost 20 years as tutor and researcher in Primary Teacher Education, has allowed her to reflect and write on topics related to pedagogy and philosophy of education. Her recent work includes Language and Culture in Foreign Language Teaching, in Exploring Education and Childhood: From Current Certainties to New Visions (2015), Mastering Primary Languages (Mastering Primary Teaching) by Paula Ambrossi and Darnelle Constant- Shepherd (2018), Sustaining Hegemony: Educational Use of Photographs Representing Human Distress (2019), and The Languages We Teach and the Empires We Embrace: Addressing Decolonization Through the Gaze of the Empire (2024).
