Gillborn, David;
Kirton, Alison;
(2000)
WHITE HEAT: racism, under-achievement and white working-class boys.
International Journal of Inclusive Education
, 4
(4)
pp. 271-288.
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Abstract
The article examines students' experience of inner-city education in one of England’s most disadvantaged areas. In particular, we reflect on the views of white working class boys, a group that has recently been identified by policy-makers and the media as especially at risk of educational failure. These young people recognise the educational disadvantage they face on a daily basis, made explicit in a tangible lack of resourcing and institutionalised through selection systems (like banding and setting). These injustices are re-worked through the students' perspectives, taking cues from national and community racist discourses of white victimhood. In this way the white students view their educational and class disadvantage as a Ôrace' issue. We conclude that this is an important but largely unrecognised way in which racism continues to work through a system that, despite changes in rhetoric, refuses to engage with the reality of racism as a deeply rooted and defining characteristic of the education system.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | WHITE HEAT: racism, under-achievement and white working-class boys |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Gillborn, David and Kirton , Alison (2000) WHITE HEAT: racism, under-achievement and white working-class boys. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 4 (4). pp. 271-288. International Journal of Inclusive Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13603110050167998 |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10001703 |
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