Supporting or Subverting Learning: Peer Group Patterns in Four Tracked Schools.

Schwartz, Frances

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ERIC Number: EJ249493

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Publication Date: 1981

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Supporting or Subverting Learning: Peer Group Patterns in Four Tracked Schools.

Schwartz, Frances

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v12 n2 p99-121 Sum 1981

Argues that peer group academic orientation is a reaction to the expectations and constraints of a specific educational structure. Analyzes the impact of one structure, tracking, on the peer group and explains the emergences of contrasting high and low track patterns. (Author/MK)

Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Interaction, Peer Groups, Track System (Education)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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