1st Edition
Visual Mythologies in Education Deconstructing the School Prospectus in An Age of Neoliberal Inequality
1 Introduction 2 Educational mythologies today 3 Schools go to market 4 Theoretical Framework
5 The research behind this book 6 School Uniform 7 People: Docile bodies and mythologies made flesh 8 Mythologies of the "Heroic Head" 9 Visibility is a trap 10 No outsiders - inside, outside and the liminal spaces between them 11 Set Down with Due Care: Atmosphere, Materials and Colours 12 Empty promises: credentials and props 13 Division of Labour 14 Food Glorious Food! 15 The Colonial Image: Where class and race intersect
16 So what? 17 Little Boxes: Social Reproduction and Schools 18 Conclusions and Implications Index
Biography
Stuart Bracewell is a secondary school teacher based in the Southeast of England. He is interested in class and social reproduction in neoliberal education, with a particular focus on their visual manifestations in everyday life. He is influenced by critical theory, critical pedagogy and visual semiotics with the aim of building democratic and libertarian forms of education and published his doctoral thesis in this area at the University of Reading.
