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What Counts as 'Success'? Hierarchical discourses in a girls' comprehensive school

SHEREEN BENJAMIN University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Pages 105-118 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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Lauren Stentiford, George Koutsouris & Alexandra Allan. (2023) ‘They think it’s trendy to have a disability/mental-illness’: disability, capital and desire in elite education. British Journal of Sociology of Education 44:6, pages 1067-1086.
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Rhiannon Evans. (2017) Emotional pedagogy and the gendering of social and emotional learning. British Journal of Sociology of Education 38:2, pages 184-202.
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Eva Reimers. (2014) Discourses of education and constitutions of class: public discourses on education in Swedish PBS television. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 35:4, pages 540-553.
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Heather Jane Smith. (2013) A critique of the teaching standards in England (1984–2012): discourses of equality and maintaining the status quo. Journal of Education Policy 28:4, pages 427-448.
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Mike Oliver & Colin Barnes. (2010) Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion. British Journal of Sociology of Education 31:5, pages 547-560.
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Peter J. Hay & Doune Macdonald. (2010) The gendering of abilities in Senior PE. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 15:3, pages 271-285.
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Jessica Ringrose. (2007) Successful girls? Complicating post‐feminist, neoliberal discourses of educational achievement and gender equality. Gender and Education 19:4, pages 471-489.
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Marnina Gonick. (2007) Girl Number 20 revisited: feminist literacies in new hard times. Gender and Education 19:4, pages 433-454.
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Emma Renold & Alexandra Allan. (2006) Bright and Beautiful: High achieving girls, ambivalent femininities, and the feminization of success in the primary school. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 27:4, pages 457-473.
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PeterJ. Hay & lisahunter. (2006) ‘Please Mr Hay, what are my poss(abilities)?’: legitimation of ability through physical education practices. Sport, Education and Society 11:3, pages 293-310.
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Shaun Wilkinson, Dawn Penney & Linda Allin. (2015) Setting and within-class ability grouping. European Physical Education Review 22:3, pages 336-354.
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Peter HayDawn Penney. (2010) Proposing conditions for assessment efficacy in physical education. European Physical Education Review 15:3, pages 389-405.
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Lorna Hamilton & Jane Brown. (2016) ‘Judgement day is coming!’: young people and the examination process in Scotland. Improving Schools 8:1, pages 47-57.
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