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    Selves, social factors, school sites and the tricky issue of 'school effects'

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    Author
    Yates, Lyn
    Date
    2001
    Source Title
    Change: Transformations in Education
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Yates, Lynette
    Affiliation
    Education
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    Document Type
    Journal (Paginated)
    Citations
    Yates, L. (2001). Selves, social factors, school sites and the tricky issue of 'school effects'. Change: Transformations in Education, 4(2), 16-29.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33520
    Description

    This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Change: Transformations in Education 2001, published by the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. This version is reproduced with permission. http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/4245

    Abstract
    Schooling policy is heavily driven by data-base evidence of inputs and outputs of different schools and of results for different ‘social categories’ of student. Good schools are seen as those with high retention rates and good year 12 results; the outcomes of ‘girls’ as a category are compared with those of ‘boys’ as a category. This article discusses some evidence from a qualitative, longitudinal project, based in four different school sites, and the more complicated perspective this throws on what different types of schools are doing and achieving in relation to different types of young people. The article discusses the methodological usefulness, even for policy purposes, of a research focus on particular students in particular school sites; the relevance of seeing schools and students as socially and culturally positioned, not simply as amalgams of ‘factors’ or as sites of ‘effective techniques’; and it draws particular attention to what is learnt in schools as an ‘effect’ we need to consider both in relation to individual life-chances, and to broad social formation.
    Keywords
    curriculum; gender; inequalities; research methodology; social conditions

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