Youthful Imagination : Schooling,

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Georgina Tsolidis is Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

Acknowledgments

xi

Chapter 1 Recalling Public Space

1

(8)

Choosing Risky Identifications

5

(1)

The Significance of Culture

6

(3)

Chapter 2 Refusing Choice as a Way of Working

9

(11)

On Doing Ethnography in Schools

12

(3)

Ethical Research

15

(1)

Told and Untold Stories

15

(2)

Where I Want the Story to Go

17

(3)

Chapter 3 The Blue or the Red Pill?

20

(12)

Imagining that which Is Not Yet

25

(2)

Forcing Ourselves to Face Utopia

27

(1)

The Matrix, the Real and the Imaginary

28

(4)

Chapter 4 Coveting a Culture of Success

32

(23)

The Fables of Tables

37

(3)

Zoning In — The Politics of Entry

40

(4)

Loving and Hating the Culture of Success

44

(2)

The Cost of Community and Its Imagined Style

46

(1)

The Loud Silence of Class

47

(2)

Mining the Migrant Mentality

49

(3)

Is Anything Really Priceless?

52

(3)

Chapter 5 Strategic Identities - Pathways to Imagined Futures

55

(13)

Seeping and Silent Cultures

64

(4)

Chapter 6 Being in 'Geek Kingdom'

68

(22)

Jocks and Blondes

72

(4)

Homophobic Bullying

76

(3)

Silenced Cultures

79

(4)

Wogs 'It's Like a Sovereign State'

83

(3)

In-Between Spaces

86

(4)

Chapter 7 Choosing To Perform - 'Wogs' and 'Blondes'

90

(17)

Chapter 8 '... Music Doesn't Really Cut It'-When Music Is and Isn't Your Life

107

(16)

Being Middling

114

(9)

Chapter 9 Synthesising Selves

123

(17)

Chapter 10 Being Mercenary - The Politics of Performance

140

(24)

The Everyday Experience According to Nerds

143

(3)

Supporting Good Results

146

(2)

Standard Measures

148

(1)

Performing Disengagement

149

(1)

Managing Performance

150

(3)

Performing Below Par

153

(1)

School Ethos

154

(4)

Disciplining Performance

158

(6)

Chapter 11 Disciplining for Reputation

164

(15)

Discipline — The Dark Side of Schooling

166

(2)

Discipline for Learning

168

(5)

On Being a 'Good' School

173

(6)

Chapter 12 Imagined Futures- Passion or Passionate Pragmatics?

179

(12)

Fiddling with Success

181

(3)

Focused on Being Middling

184

(1)

Marrying Millionaires and Buying Lottery Tickets

185

(3)

Imagined Futures

188

(3)

Chapter 13 Identity as Academic Liability

191

(8)

Bibliography

199

(6)

Index

205

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Youthful Imagination : Schooling, Subcultures, and Social Justice

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