Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities

Download or read book Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities written by Deborah Youdell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings sophisticated but accessible theoretical tools together with ethnographic data from real schools Demonstrates the inseparability of categories such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, disability, special needs Develops tools for understanding the relationships between schools, subjectivities, and students as learners Works across national contexts to show the wide applicability of these tools Problematises narrow understandings of inclusion found in contemporary policy Explores a new politics for interrupting educational inequalities