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Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus

Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus

Watkins, Megan
Noble, Greg

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General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1441177116
ISBN13: 9781441177117
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 22 2013
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Disposed to Learn explores the relationship between ethnicity and dispositions towards learning, with a focus on primary school students of Chinese, Pasifika and Anglo Australian backgrounds. The authors challenge the tendency towards the essentializing of ethnicity within multiculturalism to argue for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between culture and academic performance. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, they examine how home and school practices produce particular attributes that are embodied as dispositions towards learning - the scholarly habitus. These home and school practices entail different modes of discipline which help or hinder student engagement. The book underlies the need for a better understanding of cultural diversity in schooling to address issues of educational inclusion.

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