Rituals play a central role in the development of individual and collective identity. This is par...

Drawing on research findings from an ethnography conducted with young children that explored patt...

Young people talk frankly, eloquently and often movingly about sex and relationships in this deta...

This book is the result of extensive ethnographic research that has analysed the experiences of y...

How to do Educational Ethnography is designed for researchers new to educational ethnography as w...

The teaching and practice of democracy in schools might be considered particularly important in t...

The idea of democratic schooling with its emphasis on equality is seriously attacked by the marke...

'The postcolonial condition represents the political, social and cultural realities of what const...

This is an important collection of texts taking a critical perspective on the politics and practi...

This book addresses policies, practices and outcomes related to education equity in Sweden and En...

Teaching and learning practices around arts in various formal and informal contexts are increasin...

Rural-urban disparities in Sweden, as in many other countries, have been somewhat of a blackspot-...

The 'problem' of young black men has loomed large in the news-media and academic research for mor...

Teenage Parenthood

This book is about the changing constellations of risk and opportunity that young people face in ...

This is an important collection of texts taking a critical perspective on the politics and practi...

Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the pro...

The Nordic countries have traditionally been regarded as archetypal representatives of social dem...

Despite ongoing debates, funding and pedagogical initiatives, why do many children and adults con...

In Sweden a new 'third way' welfarist society has led to the education system being exposed to ma...

Learner biographies and learning cultures constitutes an important contribution to the under-rese...

School is crucial in children's and young people's subject formation. It frames how they understa...

This book draws on the work of three experienced ethnographers who have studied the effects of ed...

Creative learning practices

Purists and Peripherals examines audience engagement with two cultural forms, hip-hop and grime. ...

In the last two decades the teaching profession has increasingly lost autonomy and become subject...

Mothering and being mothered in a racialised society such as the U.K. continues to have an impact...

The Coalition government's programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of soci...