Disposed to Learn: Schooling, ethnicity and the scholarly habitus

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Cover HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction From cultures to cultural practices From psychological attributes to embodied capacities Researching ethnicity, schooling and the scholarly habitus Organization of the book 1 The ethnicization of educational achievement Tiger mothers and ‘Chinese success’ The ethnic othering of ‘the Chinese’ Beyond tiger mothers: An Asian invasion? Media representation of Pasifika students Ethnicity, categories and group coherence Concluding remarks 2 Surveying culture and educational capital Culture and capitals The survey sample The backgrounds of parents Academic engagement at home Parental engagement with school Concluding remarks 3 Disposed to learning Differently capacitated bodies The capacities for scholarly labour Aspirations and educational capital Educational outcomes From stereotypes to practices in time and space 4 Home, routine and dispositions to learning Habits of home and homework Spatiality and corporeal congruence The parental gaze and promoting a productive stillness Cultures of learning outside school Concluding remarks 5 Ethnicity and schemas of perception Teacher attitudes towards ethnicity and education Schemas of perception and Chinese learners Learning styles and Pasifika students Teacher perceptions and Anglo normativity Perceptions and bodily capacities Student attitudes to teaching and learning Concluding remarks 6 Schools, pedagogy and discipline Assembled bodies and spatial disciplining Ben, Walter and Eric – A discipline of control and unproductive quietness Yupeng – A discipline of engagement Braydon and Tim – A discipline of disabling control Lottie and Darren – Engaging in learning Finau – Learning to be disengaged Vincent – Enabling control and productive quietness Disciplinary modes and dispositions to learning Conclusion Ethnicity, or a matter of practice Embodied dispositions to learning Home, school and the formation of a scholarly habitus Lessons learnt Notes References Index