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Ritual and Identity

Rituals play a central role in the development of individual and collective identity. This is par...

Cultural Practices and Transitions in Education

This is an important collection of texts taking a critical perspective on the politics and practi...

Creative learning practices

Performing English with a Postcolonial Accent

'The postcolonial condition represents the political, social and cultural realities of what const...

Cultural Practices and Transitions in Education

This is an important collection of texts taking a critical perspective on the politics and practi...

Growing Up Bad? Black Youth, ’Road’ Culture and Badness in an East London Neighbourhood

The 'problem' of young black men has loomed large in the news-media and academic research for mor...

Democratic Education

The idea of democratic schooling with its emphasis on equality is seriously attacked by the marke...

No Country for the Young

The Coalition government's programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of soci...

Teenage Parenthood

Researching Education Policy

This book draws on the work of three experienced ethnographers who have studied the effects of ed...

Youth and Work Transitions in Changing Social Landscapes

This book is about the changing constellations of risk and opportunity that young people face in ...

Youth and Marginalisation

This book is the result of extensive ethnographic research that has analysed the experiences of y...