The employment problem of secondary grammar school leavers :
Callaway, Archibald.
The employment problem of secondary grammar school leavers : a pilot study / - [Ibadan] : Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1975. - iv, 32 p. :
Includes bibliographical references.
This paper considers ways in which truancy, as a form of social exclusion, has its origins in the history and politics of compulsory education. Despite widespread concern expressed about declining standards, rising indiscipline, incompetent teachers, outmoded curriculum and mounting truancy in the U.K., it is argued here that such issues are not new. Thus, for the purposes of the paper contemporary research, policy and media hype, premised on ‘discovery’ of declining standards of behaviour and school attendance, is questioned precisely because the level of analysis from which they begin is inadequate. Hence, two interrelated aspects of this phenomenon are considered. The first concerns a socio-historical account of compulsory education as it is mediated by the relations between family, law and economy.
Employment
High school graduates
HD6276.N5 / C34
331.1'37804 / CAL
The employment problem of secondary grammar school leavers : a pilot study / - [Ibadan] : Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1975. - iv, 32 p. :
Includes bibliographical references.
This paper considers ways in which truancy, as a form of social exclusion, has its origins in the history and politics of compulsory education. Despite widespread concern expressed about declining standards, rising indiscipline, incompetent teachers, outmoded curriculum and mounting truancy in the U.K., it is argued here that such issues are not new. Thus, for the purposes of the paper contemporary research, policy and media hype, premised on ‘discovery’ of declining standards of behaviour and school attendance, is questioned precisely because the level of analysis from which they begin is inadequate. Hence, two interrelated aspects of this phenomenon are considered. The first concerns a socio-historical account of compulsory education as it is mediated by the relations between family, law and economy.
Employment
High school graduates
HD6276.N5 / C34
331.1'37804 / CAL