Education and young peoples’ anticipated futures in times of cruel optimism

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Zipin, Lew and Dumenden, Iris E (2014) Education and young peoples’ anticipated futures in times of cruel optimism. In: Contemporary Issues of Equity in Education. Gannon, S and Sawyer, W, eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 215 - 230.

Abstract

In this chapter, we take up Worsham’s call to attend to particular social-structural positioning, in presenting and analysing data drawn from four focus groups with Year 9 students in a high school in the relatively low SES western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.

Item type Book Section
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/26331
Edition 1st
ISBN 9781443863322
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Historical > FOR Classification > 1608 Sociology
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > College of Education
Keywords work insecurity; pathways curricula; Melbourne; pessimism; emotional ground tones; structures of feeling; work futures; youth; schools; performative curriculum; generational distinctions; generations; social conditions
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