Social Haunting, Education, and the Working Class: A Critical Marxist Ethnography in a Former Mining Community...

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Kat Simpson (University of Huddersfield, UK)

Social Haunting, Education, and the Working Class

A Critical Marxist Ethnography in a Former Mining Community

Kat Simpson (University of Huddersfield, UK)

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Routledge
09 January 2023

Social classes; Anthropology; Moral & social purpose of education; Schools

Series: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism

Based on a critical Marxist ethnography, conducted at a state primary school in a former coalmining community in the north of England, this book provides insight into teachers’ perceptions of the effects of deindustrialisation on education for the working class.

The book draws on the notion of social haunting to help understand the complex ways in which historical relations and performances, reflective of the community’s industrial past, continue to shape experiences and processes of schooling. The arguments presented enable us to engage with the ‘goodness’ of the past as well as the pain and suffering associated with deindustrialisation. This, it is argued, enables teachers and pupils to engage with rhythms, relations, and performances that recognise the heritage and complexities of working-class culture. Reckoning and harnessing with the fullness of ghosts is essential if schooling is to be refashioned in more encouraging and relational ways, with and for the working class.

This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in the sociology of education, and social class and education in particular. Those interested in schooling, ethnography, and qualitative social research will also benefit from the book

By: Kat Simpson (University of Huddersfield UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9780367568177
ISBN 10: 0367568179
Series: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by James Avis Introduction Chapter 1 Social Haunting of Deindustrialisation Chapter 2 Lillydown – A Working-Class Biography Chapter 3 Education and Marxism Chapter 4 The State Apparatus and the Role of Education Chapter 5 Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Ghosts Chapter 6 Growing-Up Working-Class: A Sense of Being Chapter 7 How Class Haunts: Social Stratification in the Classroom Chapter 8 The Social Haunting of Deindustrialisation: Considerations on a Marxist Pedagogy of Social Haunting Index

Kat Simpson is Senior Lecturer in Education and Community Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK.