TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Stigma and the doomed-to-fail school careers of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
JO  - Children's geographies
A1  - Gulczyńska, Anita
SP  - 413
EP  - 426
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - The paper contributes to 'geographies of education' (Holloway, S., and H. Jöns. 2012. "Geographies of Education and Learning." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37 (4): 482-488), as it presents the typical school careers of students stigmatized in educational institutions because of their disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Drawing on qualitative research with male residents of one disadvantaged neighbourhood in Łódź (Poland), I identify their typical careers as 'doomed-to-fail school careers'. The paper has three aims. First, it highlights the significance of stigma-based spatially embedded school practices on the educational failure and low-paid employment of students from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Second, it uncovers forms of school control over stigmatized students and the students' resistance to these. Finally, I argue that Erving Goffman's theory of stigma in human geography (Goffman, E. 1963. Stigma. Notes on Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall) offers a unique language to describe and explain the spatially embedded educational experiences of marginalized students.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1473-3285
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1536775
ID  - ref1
ER  -