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Reclassifying Upward Mobility: Femininity and the neo-liberal subject
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This article explored the way in which narratives of upward mobility are lived as success and failure, hope and despair, for some young women entering the labour market in Britain at the turn of the millennium.Abstract:
While the concept of class does not sit easily with a very changed labour market in which traditional markers of working-class masculinity have been eroded and many people would not define themselves in class terms, the differences and inequalities associated with class have certainly far from disappeared. This article aims to explore how we might think about the ways that 'class' enters the production of subjectivities in the present. In particular, the article explores the way in which narratives of upward mobility are lived as success and failure, hope and despair, for some young women entering the labour market in Britain at the turn of the millennium. The multiplicity and fracturing of past and present, belonging, not belonging, the dreams, aspirations and defences are explored in some detail.read more
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Disgusted subjects: the making of middle‐class identities
TL;DR: This article argued that the ownership of taste is understood as reflecting true humanity, and as conferring uniqueness, however, this uniqueness is only achieved through an incorporation of collective, classed understandings.
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Deconstructing Professionalism in Early Childhood Education: Resisting the Regulatory Gaze:
TL;DR: In this paper, the dominant construction of professionalism as created and promoted by the United Kingdom Government through policy is discussed and analyzed. But the focus of the paper is on the UK professionalism.
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
TL;DR: In this paper, the self: ontological security and existential anxiety are discussed, as well as the trajectory of the self, risk, and security in high modernity, and the emergence of life politics.
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
TL;DR: In the context of a post-traditional order, the self becomes a reflexive project as mentioned in this paper, which is not a term which has much applicability to traditional cultures, because it implies choice within plurality of possible options, and is 'adopted' rather than 'handed down'.
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Multiliteracies: Lit Learning
Bill Cope,Mary Kalantzis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provides a coherent and accessible overview of the work of the New London Group, with well-known international contributors bringing together their varying national experiences and differences of theoretical and political emphasis, dealing with issues such as: * the fundamental premises of literacy pedagogy * the effects of technological change * multilingualism and cultual diversity * social futures and their implications on language teaching.