Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Policy Context: Educational 'Standards' and Human Capital; 2 Conceptualizing Gender and Achievement; 3 Facilitating High Achievement and the Issue of 'Balance'; 4 Boffins and Geeks: The Social Consequences for Young People Constructed as 'Too Hardworking'; 5 High Achieving and Popular: The Ideal Neoliberal Subject; 6 High Achieving and Popular: How Do They Do It; 7 Implications for Schools; References; Index |
Summary |
How do some students manage to excel in their studies and be popular while other high achievers are treated as social outcasts?This lively and accessible text looks at the relationships between gender, race and social class, and attainment and popularity, for high achieving pupils. The internationally renowned authors present a lucid theoretical framework that reflects the complexity of these issues, placing them within the broader context of the policies which cause and constrain particular behaviours among teachers and pupils. The authors draw together empirical data, bringing the realities |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Gifted children -- Education.
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Gifted children -- Social conditions
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Academic achievement -- Sex differences
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Organization & management of education.
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Teaching of gifted students.
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EDUCATION -- Special Education -- Gifted.
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Academic achievement -- Sex differences
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Gifted children -- Education
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Gifted children -- Social conditions
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Read, Barbara
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Skelton, Christine
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LC no. |
2011024514 |
ISBN |
9780826421777 |
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0826421776 |
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9781441199232 |
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1441199233 |
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1441157190 |
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9781441157195 |
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1441121560 |
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9781441121561 |
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1280123702 |
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9781280123702 |
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9786613527561 |
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6613527564 |
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