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Progression Through School: a study of the school careers of secondary modern girls
Author(s) -
Lomax Pamela
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192800060202
Subject(s) - ambiguity , meaning (existential) , perspective (graphical) , term (time) , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , school education , mathematics education , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , psychotherapist
In this paper a new approach to the study of organisations is suggested, one that focuses on the organisation in terms of the meaning that organisation members find within it. In the following account I have used this approach to examine school from the pupil's perspective. The major concepts that are employed are career, career segment and career pattern. The term ‘career’ is open to objection because of possible ambiguity. It is, however, a convenient term and no difficulty should be caused if it is borne in mind that it relates to what happens in the school and not what happens after. I have drawn on my own research at Rushel Secondary Modern School to illustrate the analysis.