|Title: ||‘Sticking together!’ Policy activism from within a UK coal-mining community|
|Citation: ||Journal of educational administration and history, 2012, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 221-236|
|Issue Date: ||2012 |
|Additional Links: ||http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjeh20/current|
|Abstract: ||This article reflects on some aspects of a doctoral ethnographic study of young people disaffected from schooling in a post-industrial space of ruin in a former coal-mining community in England. It considers how their experiences of resistance and refusal of schooling can, in the relational ethos of non-school support settings, come to speak back to hegemonic policy, particularly around ‘aspiration’. Focusing on the example of a young people's film project, data are assembled showing how a local culture of ‘resistant aspiration’ – itself affectively linked to sedimented traditions of insubordination – forms a site of activist possibility. In this site, the ground-level resistance of the young people and the more strategically informed interventions of a group of locally originating staff come together in a moment of policy activism that displays both scope and limitation.|
|Description: ||Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Journal of educational administration and history, published by and copyright Routledge.|
|Appears in Collections: ||ESRI: Education and Social Research Institute |
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