TY - JOUR
T1 - 'I just got on with it': the educational experiences of ordinary, yet overlooked, boys
AU - Roberts, Steven
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In the 1980s, researchers established the need to document and analyse the educational attitudes, behaviours and outcomes of ordinary kids as a means of developing a holistic account of school experience. Yet, while significant attention is given to extremes in educational attitudes and behaviours, ordinariness tends to remain overlooked in contemporary research and policy discourses. This article contributes to this void by presenting data from a qualitative study of young men s school-to-work transitions. Their educational experiences at both compulsory and post-compulsory levels illustrate a distinctive middle-ground, defying typically conceived dualisms of resistance or engagement. Alongside research interest in the extremes of success and failure , such ordinary experiences can enable us to reinvigorate and refine our conceptual repertoire. (c) 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
AB - In the 1980s, researchers established the need to document and analyse the educational attitudes, behaviours and outcomes of ordinary kids as a means of developing a holistic account of school experience. Yet, while significant attention is given to extremes in educational attitudes and behaviours, ordinariness tends to remain overlooked in contemporary research and policy discourses. This article contributes to this void by presenting data from a qualitative study of young men s school-to-work transitions. Their educational experiences at both compulsory and post-compulsory levels illustrate a distinctive middle-ground, defying typically conceived dualisms of resistance or engagement. Alongside research interest in the extremes of success and failure , such ordinary experiences can enable us to reinvigorate and refine our conceptual repertoire. (c) 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/doi/pdf/10.1080/01425692.2011.649832
U2 - 10.1080/01425692.2011.649832
DO - 10.1080/01425692.2011.649832
M3 - Article
SN - 0142-5692
VL - 33
SP - 203
EP - 221
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
IS - 2
ER -