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This book examines the nature of age as an aspect of social identity and its relationship to experiences of formal education. Providing a new and critical approach to debates about age and social identity, the author explores why age remains such an important aspect of self-making in contemporary society.
Patrick Alexander is Reader in Education and Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is also Director of the Oxford Brookes Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Age in society: Framing social structure.- Chapter 3. The concept of age imaginaries.- Chapter 4. An archaeology of the recent past: Age and schooling in historical and contemporary social context.- Chapter 5. Learning to act your age in the classroom.- Chapter 6. Learning to act your age in the playground: Age and the social lives of secondary school students.- Chapter 7. Learning to act your age in the staffroom: Age imaginaries in the lives of 'younger teachers'.- Chapter 8. Conclusions
