Ability Grouping in Schools - Meritocracy's Undeserving Ambrossi, Paula creator author. text bibliography enk 2024 First edition. monographic eng 1 online resource (x, 138 pages). 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. 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 general Paula Ambrossi. Ability grouping in education SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General LB3061 9781003398202 1003398200 9781040050491 1040050492 9781040050286 104005028X https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003398202 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003398202 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf OCoLC-P 240313 20251030122243.0 9781003398202 eng