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Making Spaces: Citizenship and Difference in Schools

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Authors:
  1. Tuula Gordon

    1. Department of Women’s Studies, University of Tampere, Finland

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  2. Janet Holland

    1. Social Science Research Centre, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, South Bank University, London, UK

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  3. Elina Lahelma

    1. Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland
      Academy of Finland, Finland

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  1. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Do You Wanna Dance?

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 1-7

  3. Individual Citizens

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 9-22

  4. Space and Place for Markets: New Right and the Restructuring of Education

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 23-35

  5. Curricula for Nations

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 36-51

  6. Invitation to the Dance: Exploring Everyday Life in Schools

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 52-64

  7. One Two Three, One Two Three: the Official School

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 65-100

  8. Stepping Here, Stepping There: the Informal School

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 101-135

  9. ‘Strictly Ballroom’: the Physical School and Space

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 136-164

  10. ‘Twist and Shout’: Bodies in the Physical School

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 165-191

  11. Who are the Wallflowers?

    • Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma
    Pages 192-203

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 204-235
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This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalisation and of co-operation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity. The concluding question 'who are the wallflowers?' is addressed through a critique of New Right politics and policies in education.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Women’s Studies, University of Tampere, Finland

    Tuula Gordon

  • Social Science Research Centre, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, South Bank University, London, UK

    Janet Holland

  • Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Elina Lahelma

  • Academy of Finland, Finland

    Elina Lahelma

About the authors

TUULA GORDON is Professor in Women's Studies and Social Sciences in the Department of Women's Studies, University of Tampere. She obtained her sociology degree at London School of Economics and her doctorate at the University of London. She has also taught at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Single Women: On the Margin, Feminist Mothers and Democracy in One School? Progressive Education and Restructuring, and co-editor of Unresolved Dilemmas: Women, Work and the Family in the United States, Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

JANET HOLLAND is Professor of Social Research and Director of the Social Science Research Centre, South Bank University, London. She is co-author of The Male in the Head, and co-editor of Sex, Sensibility and The Gendered Body, Sexual Cultures, Debates and Issues in Feminist Research and Pedagogy, and Identity and Diversity: Gender and the Experience of Education.

ELINA LAHELMA is Docent, Department of Education at the University of Helsinki. Currently she works as senior fellow at the Academy of Finland. She has written extensively on gender and education.

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