03431cam a2200517 i 4500 9781003398202 FlBoTFG 20251030122243.0 m o d cr cnu|||unuuu 240313s2024 enk gob 000 0 eng d OCoLC-P eng rda pn OCoLC-P 9781003398202 (electronic bk.) 1003398200 (electronic bk.) 9781032503684 9781040050491 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 1040050492 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 9781040050286 (electronic bk. : PDF) 104005028X (electronic bk. : PDF) 9781032503646 10.4324/9781003398202 doi (OCoLC)1426022936 (OCoLC-P)1426022936 LB3061 SOC 026000 bisacsh JHB bicssc Ambrossi, Paula, author. 94250 Bottom Set Citizen : Ability Grouping in Schools - Meritocracy's Undeserving / Paula Ambrossi. First edition. London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. 1 online resource (x, 138 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge advances in sociology Introduction1. You have never been to this place2. There is no democracy in childhood3. Meritocracy and its allegiance to the empire4. Knowledge and humiliation in schools5. When knowledge does not pay6. The rise of the Bottom set citizen7. 'It never did me any harm': Some BSC exemplars 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. This book will appeal to anyone concerned with democracy and children's rights in education, including the rich, on whom I shine the light of deficit for a change. Thus, Donald Trump and Nigel Farage exemplify the bottom set citizen in all his facilitated glory. Other, more vulnerable BSCs are not as lucky. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Ability grouping in education. 94251 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General bisacsh Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003398202 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf E-Books 67747 67747