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‘Sticking together!’ Policy activism from within a UK coal-mining community.
- Source :
- Journal of Educational Administration & History; Aug2012, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p221-236, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- This article reflects on some aspects of a doctoral ethnographic study of young people disaffected from schooling in a post-industrial space of ruin in a former coal-mining community in England. It considers how their experiences of resistance and refusal of schooling can, in the relational ethos of non-school support settings, come to speak back to hegemonic policy, particularly around ‘aspiration’. Focusing on the example of a young people's film project, data are assembled showing how a local culture of ‘resistant aspiration’ – itself affectively linked to sedimented traditions of insubordination – forms a site of activist possibility. In this site, the ground-level resistance of the young people and the more strategically informed interventions of a group of locally originating staff come together in a moment of policy activism that displays both scope and limitation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220620
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Educational Administration & History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77658524
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2012.683395