The problem of the underachievement of the English working class at school: Special reference to the "community school"
Abstract
The argument around the problem of the working class
underachievement at school has been moving away from the concept
of cultural or linguistic deprivation of the working class student,
which prevailed as a main explanation of the problem in the '60’s. As
a cause of the above issue there is, in the 70’s, a considerable emphasis
upon the internal organization and the education content of
the school which transmits the middle-class values of the society and
represents the middle-class culture as «total culture».
The «community school» in England within the radical approach
has developed in an effort to search, mainly in socio-economically
deprived areas, for alternative rather than traditional ways of affecting
the school performance of the underachieving student. This
outlook may involve radical change not only in the role of the school
within its community, but in the selection and organization of
knowledge at school as well.
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Feidi-Maskell, T. (1980). The problem of the underachievement of the English working class at school: Special reference to the "community school". The Greek Review of Social Research, 38, 53–63. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.261
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