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Ambrossi, Paula

 
9781032503684: Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
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ISBN 10: 1032503688 ISBN 13: 9781032503684
Editorial: Routledge, 2025

Sinopsis

While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies over and above ethical principles on the education of society’s most vulnerable, our children.

The practice, which happens across social class, humiliates children deemed ‘less academically able’ by ‘rounding them up’ in front and in opposition to their ‘better’ intellectual peers. Wielding knowledge as a weapon of humiliation warps children’s relationship to organized forms of knowledge, making them antagonistic or indifferent towards it. This book responds to Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy, by focusing on the plight of those who are educationally placed in opposition to the ‘intellectual elites’: the bottom set citizen, rich or poor and ready to vote.

This book will appeal to anyone concerned with democracy and children’s rights in education, including the rich, on whom I shine the light of deficit for a change. Thus, Donald Trump and Nigel Farage exemplify the bottom set citizen in all his facilitated glory. Other, more vulnerable BSCs are not as lucky.

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Acerca del autor

Paula Ambrossi is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, University College London. Her experience as a Modern Foreign Languages teacher in secondary education, followed by almost 20 years as tutor and researcher in Primary Teacher Education, has allowed her to reflect and write on topics related to pedagogy and philosophy of education. Her recent work includes Language and Culture in Foreign Language Teaching, in Exploring Education and Childhood: From Current Certainties to New Visions (2015), Mastering Primary Languages (Mastering Primary Teaching) by Paula Ambrossi and Darnelle Constant- Shepherd (2018), Sustaining Hegemony: Educational Use of Photographs Representing Human Distress (2019), and The Languages We Teach and the Empires We Embrace: Addressing Decolonization Through the Gaze of the Empire (2024).

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
1032503688
ISBN 13 
9781032503684
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
148
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