'Race', Class and Gender in Exclusion From School / Edition 1

by Alex McGlaughlin, Debbie Weekes, Cecile Wright

Overview

This book explores the impact of 'race', class and gender on the interaction of pupils and their teachers in the classroom setting. It seeks to examine the extent to which these variables can account for differential rates of school exclusion between pupils from different ethnic/racial groups, socio-economic classes and genders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750708425
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/1999
Series:	Studies in Inclusive Education Series
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cecile Wright is Reader in Sociology at the Nottingham Trent University. She has both carried out research and written extensively in the field of race, ethnicity and education. Debbie Weekes is a Development Manager at the Windsor Fellowship. She has published and presented numerous articles and conference papers on issues such as Black female and male adolescence and the raising of ethnic minority pupil achievement. Alex McGlaughlin is Associate Head, Department of Social Sciences and Reader in Psychology at the Nottingham Trent University. His teaching and research in Human Development has resulted in publications of infant crying, stress and stimulation in childhood and exclusion from school.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface 1. Theoretical Overview 2. School Ethos and the 'Value' of Exclusion 3. Teachers and Pupils - Relationships of Power and Resistance 4. Interrelations of 'Race' and Gender in School 5. Gendering 'Race' 6. 'Race' and the Social Consequences of Exclusion 7. Future Prospects - Towards Inclusive Education for All