Urban Schools as Urban Places: School Reputation, Children’s Identities and Engagement with Education in London

Sumi Hollingworth and Louise Archer
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Sumi Hollingworth: Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB, UK, s.hollingworth@londonmet.ac.uk
Louise Archer: Department of Education and Professional Studies, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK, louise.archer@kcl.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 3, 584-603

Abstract: Drawing on empirical data from a project exploring the experiences and identities of London school children who were identified by their schools as being ‘at risk of dropping out’ of education, this paper highlights schools as important local spaces in urban children’s identity constructions. It is argued that the way in which schools and local areas are materially and discursively constructed can impact on children’s identities as learners and their engagement with education. The paper shows that urban children’s relationships to their school and local area are complex and contradictory, generating feelings of attachment and positive identification, but also fear and disgust. It is also argued that these feelings about place impact on children’s relationships to education.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098009349774

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