| Description |
239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Routledge education books |
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Routledge education books.
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| Contents |
1. School & peer group as agents of socialisation -- 2. The research population -- 3. Students' control systems -- 4. Mucking around -- 5. Intrusion of external statuses & associations -- 6. Stirrers & clowns -- 7. Teacher authority & student control -- 8. Diffuse relations with teachers -- 9. Students' construction & management of academic status -- 10. Teacher particularism -- 11. Students' evaluation of classroom seating position -- 12. Conclusions -- Appendices: Student interviews. Conditions & permit for research. A girls' classroom note |
| Summary |
Both teachers and radical theorists need to know the facts about the student world. Indeed, an understanding of student classroom culture and its social structure should be central to any analysis of the outcome of schooling. This book reports the results of an investigation into the untamed life of students in the domestic setting of the classroom. Its main theme is that the experience of schooling needs to be understood in terms of peer interaction in the classroom. It is this interaction, and not the unmediated curriculum or teacher, which determines students perceptions of the curriculum and teacher; it is, in its own right, a major agent of socialisation |
| Analysis |
Queensland Secondary schools Students Social interactions - Case studies |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 221-229 |
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Includes indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979.
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Classroom environment -- Australia -- Case studies.
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High school students -- Australia -- Conduct of life.
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High school students -- Australia.
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Social interaction -- Australia -- Case studies.
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| Author |
Macpherson, J.
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| LC no. |
83013900 |
| ISBN |
0710095147 |
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