Miseducation

Diane Reay grew up in a working-class coal-mining community before becoming an inner-city primary school teacher for 20 years. She is now Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and visiting Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with particular interests in social justice issues in education, and cultural analyses of social class, race and gender. She has researched extensively in the areas of social class, gender and ethnicity across primary, secondary and post-compulsory stages of education.

Introduction: a personal reflection


1. What is social class, and why it matters both inside and outside of education


2. The history of class in education


3. Class in the classroom


4. The mis-structuring of state education: the rise of the academies


5. Behaviour and discipline: education as control


6. Social mobility: a problematic solution


7. Lessons from other countries


8. Towards an educational system that develops all children’s potential


Conclusion: Still Miseducating


Notes


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