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Author Francis, Becky

Title Identities and Practices of High Achieving Pupils : Negotiating Achievement and Peer Cultures
Published London : Continuum International Pub., 2012

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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
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Subject Gifted children -- Education.
Gifted children -- Social conditions
Academic achievement -- Sex differences
Organization & management of education.
Teaching of gifted students.
EDUCATION -- Special Education -- Gifted.
Academic achievement -- Sex differences
Gifted children -- Education
Gifted children -- Social conditions
Form Electronic book
Author Read, Barbara
Skelton, Christine
LC no. 2011024514
ISBN 9780826421777
0826421776
9781441199232
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9786613527561
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