Dear colleagues,
I wanted to invite you to the launch of my new book 'Factories for
Learning: making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy'
which might be of interest to some. Please find the details below.
Many thanks,
Christy Kulz
Book Launch: October 10th, 6:30-8:30pm, Out of the Brew, London, SE14
6AF
'Factories for Learning: making race, class and inequality in the
neoliberal academy’ by Christy Kulz
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. This book draws on empirical research conducted
at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary academy in an English
urban area. Dreamfields’ ‘structure liberates’ ethos claims to free
students from a culture of poverty through hard discipline. 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. It argues that the
heightened marketisation and centralisation of education instigated
through academisation reproduces new raced, classed and gendered
inequalities. Please join us for a discussion of this new book and its
themes,
accompanied by drinks, snacks, and a chance to buy the book. RSVP at
https://tinyurl.com/y77ae5y3.
Speakers include:
Prof Heidi Mirza, Goldsmiths
Prof Diane Reay, University of Cambridge
Prof Les Back, Goldsmiths
What people have said about Factories for Learning:
‘It left me with a sense of outrage because these black, white and Asian
working-class students, and every student for that matter, deserve so
much more from education than this. This book outlines with sociological
precision and keen attentiveness the shape of that educational
betrayal’.
Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London
‘This book will be a seminal text documenting the effects of the
academies policy on schools, teachers and a generation of young
people’.
Professor Vini Lander, Edge Hill University
‘Essential reading for anyone interested in the grim reality of
education on the conveyor belt that lies behind the shiny deceitful
rhetoric of aspirations and social mobility’.
Professor David Gillborn, University of Birmingham
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