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Social Haunting, Education, and the Working Class A Critical Marxist Ethnography in a Former Mining Community

By Kat Simpson Copyright 2021
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Based on a critical Marxist ethnography, conducted at a state primary school in a former coalmining community in the north of England, this book provides insight into teachers’ perceptions of the effects of deindustrialisation on education for the working class. The book draws on the notion of social haunting to help understand the complex ways in which historical relations and performances,... Read more
Foreword by James Avis

Introduction

Chapter 1 Social Haunting of Deindustrialisation

Chapter 2 Lillydown – A Working-Class Biography

Chapter 3 Education and Marxism

Chapter 4 The State Apparatus and the Role of Education

Chapter 5 Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Ghosts

Chapter 6 Growing-Up Working-Class: A Sense of Being

Chapter 7 How Class Haunts: Social Stratification in the Classroom

Chapter 8 The Social Haunting of Deindustrialisation: Considerations on a Marxist Pedagogy of Social Haunting

Index

Biography

Kat Simpson is Senior Lecturer in Education and Community Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK.