Factories for Learning - (New Ethnographies) by Christy Kulz (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book draws on empirical research conducted at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary academy in a large English city. The author explores how the heightened marketisation and centralisation of education instigated through academisation is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies that receive funding directly from central government and operate as autonomous businesses. Academies' impact on achievement levels has been hotly debated, but the social and cultural changes prompted by this model have received less scrutiny. <br /> <br /> Dreamfields' 'structure liberates' ethos claims to free students from a culture of poverty through hard discipline. Its headteacher assumes the role of business executive, saviour, pioneering cowboy and military commander leading a redemptive troupe of teachers who act as 'surrogate parents' salvaging 'urban children'. With its regimented routines and outstanding results, Dreamfields has received praise from across the political spectrum. <br /> <br /> This book examines the complex stories underlying the glossy veneer of success by exploring how persistent structural inequalities are concealed beneath the colour-blind rhetoric of aspirational citizenship. The book traces how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields' results-driven conveyor belt, as raced and classed inequalities are reshaped in new ways, and spaces of democratic participation are foreclosed. The book also explores how the hopes and dreams of students, parents and teachers are harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book draws on empirical research conducted at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary academy in a large English city. The author explores how the heightened marketisation and centralisation of education instigated through academisation is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies that receive funding directly from central government and operate as autonomous businesses. Academies' impact on achievement levels has been hotly debated, but the social and cultural changes prompted by this model have received less scrutiny. Dreamfields' 'structure liberates' ethos claims to free students from a culture of poverty through hard discipline. Its headteacher assumes the role of business executive, saviour, pioneering cowboy and military commander leading a redemptive troupe of teachers who act as 'surrogate parents' salvaging 'urban children'. With its regimented routines and outstanding results, Dreamfields has received praise from across the political spectrum. This book examines the complex stories underlying the glossy veneer of success by exploring how persistent structural inequalities are concealed beneath the colour-blind rhetoric of aspirational citizenship. The book traces how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields' results-driven conveyor belt, as raced and classed inequalities are reshaped in new ways, and spaces of democratic participation are foreclosed. The book also explores how the hopes and dreams of students, parents and teachers are harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>Kulz writes well and engagingly, and the book offers an intelligent and sensitive reflexivity-the student researcher could learn a lot here about good writing, and the possibilities of a diverse and lively form of presentation which seeks to blend theory with rich pictures of the social world.<br>Interviews, observations, pictures, and other data are set alongside one another to produce a vibrant sense of what Dreamfields is like and how it is experienced by the students and teachersELThis book is the most exciting and engaging example of sociology of education that I have read for a long<br>time. It works on a variety of levels. Its blend of traditional methods and contemporary problems, its historical sensibilities and theoretical sophistication, make it a very satisfying, provocative, and pertinent read. - Stephen J Ball, University College London, Social Forces, Vol 97, Issue 1, <br>September 2018 <br><p></p><br>This is a book about an academy, but it is also a book about authority and discipline; about neoliberal education; about new incarnations of racism; and about how people make sense of living under an oppressive regime. The polemic of the title, describing academies as 'factories for learning', <br>makes sense after reading it. Overall, this book serves as a powerful and convincing rebuttal to the 'celebratory imperial histories' of Conservative education policy (2017, 15), all the while retaining a vivid sense of the humour and energy of the young people that it describes. - Anna Bull, <br>University of Portsmouth, The Sociological Review <br><p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Christy Kulz is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.<br>
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