Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus

by Megan Watkins, Greg Noble

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441130068
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	394 KB

About the Author

Megan Watkins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and member of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Greg Noble is Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Megan Watkins is Professor in the School of Education and Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is co-author (with Greg Noble) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013).
Greg Noble is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is co-author (with Megan Watkins) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

Disposed to Learn disseminates valuable results from a complex and lengthy study in which the research design and the scope of work provide depth and breadth to the enduring problem in education, equitable educational opportunities across diverse groups of learners […]Watkins and Noble provide a rigorous empirical and theoretical study worthy of consideration.” —Audrey A. Trainor, Teacher's College Record

From the Publisher

Disposed to Learn disseminates valuable results from a complex and lengthy study in which the research design and the scope of work provide depth and breadth to the enduring problem in education, equitable educational opportunities across diverse groups of learners […]Watkins and Noble provide a rigorous empirical and theoretical study worthy of consideration.

Teacher's College Record Audrey A. Trainor