Disposed to learn : schooling, ethnicity and the scholarly habitus / Megan Watkins and Greg Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Megan, author.

Contributor:

Noble, Greg, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational anthropology.

Educational sociology.

Multicultural education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Disposed to Learn explores the relationship between ethnicity and dispositions towards learning, with a focus on primary school students of Chinese, Pasifika and Anglo Australian backgrounds. The authors challenge the tendency towards the essentializing of ethnicity within multiculturalism to argue for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between culture and academic performance. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, they examine how home and school practices produce particular attributes that are embodied as dispositions towards learning - the scholarly habitus. These home and school practices entail different modes of discipline which help or hinder student engagement. The book underlies the need for a better understanding of cultural diversity in schooling to address issues of educational inclusion

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Ethnicization of Educational Achievement

2. Surveying Culture and Educational Capital

3. Disposed to Learning

4. Home, Routine and Dispositions to Learning

5. Ethnicity and Schemas of Perception

6. Schools, Pedagogy and Discipline

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441130068

1441130063

9781472552853

1472552857

9781441170200

1441170200

OCLC:

848895468