Multicultural mixing or middle-class reproduction? The white middle classes in London comprehensive schools

Space and Polity

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-64

  Hollingworth, Sumi ^a   Williams, Katya ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; EDUCATION; MULTICULTURALISM;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77951655443     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: 14701235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562571003737767     Document Type: Article

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