Description: Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools : Rethinking Contemporary Myths of Meritocracy, Paperback by Bradbury, Alice, ISBN 1447347021, ISBN-13 9781447347026, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The author argues that the idea of ability and how it operates is one of the ways the school system in England reproduces social inequalities and that claims of meritocracy and fairness are myths. She discusses how ability and inequality operated in the era preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the future of schools in the post-pandemic era. She contends that ability is a contemporary discourse of power that reinforces social and racial inequalities in education, and she draws on a survey and interviews with teachers and school leaders from the UK to discuss the importance of focusing on ability and its use in schools; how the idea of ability relates to the maintenance and reproduction of inequalities; how developments in neuroscience have produced discourses about children and their development and how they relate to discourses of ability and inequalities; the increase in the prominence and importance of data in schools, as well as its use to label and classify children into different levels or stages of ability; and how these developments create discourses of ability as fixed and measurable. Distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools : Rethinking Contem
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Name: Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools : Rethinking Contemporary Myths of Meritocracy
Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General, Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Author: Alice Bradbury
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Education
Item Width: 7.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
