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While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies over and above ethical principles on the education of society's most vulnerable, our children.

The practice, which happens across social class, humiliates children deemed less academically able' by rounding them up' in front and in opposition to their better' intellectual peers. Wielding knowledge as a weapon of humiliation warps children's relationship to organized forms of knowledge, making them antagonistic or indifferent towards it. This book responds to Michael Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy, by focusing on the plight of those who are educationally placed in opposition to the intellectual elites': the bottom set citizen, rich or poor and ready to vote.

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Bottom Set Citizen

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/19/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032503646
      978-1032503646
      ISBN-10 1032503645

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      Book Synopsis

      While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies over and above ethical principles on the education of society's most vulnerable, our children.

      The practice, which happens across social class, humiliates children deemed less academically able' by rounding them up' in front and in opposition to their better' intellectual peers. Wielding knowledge as a weapon of humiliation warps children's relationship to organized forms of knowledge, making them antagonistic or indifferent towards it. This book responds to Michael Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy, by focusing on the plight of those who are educationally placed in opposition to the intellectual elites': the bottom set citizen, rich or poor and ready to vote.

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