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Thornberg, Robert – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2009
The aim of this field study was to investigate the hidden curriculum of school rules delimited to the moral construction of "the good pupil" embedded in the system of school rules in two primary schools. According to the findings, the rule system mediates a moral construction of the good pupil to the children, and this actually includes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hidden Curriculum, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
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Bhana, Deevia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper explores the salience of sport in the lives of eight-year-old and nine-year-old South African primary school boys. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I argue that young boys' developing relationship with sport is inscribed within particular gendered, raced and classed discourses in South Africa. Throughout the paper I show…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Males, Ethnography