Educational potential, underachievement, and cultural pluralism
The term ‘underachievement’ is widespread in modern educational discourse, invoked most frequently in relation to a perceived failure to reach ‘potential’. In this paper, it is suggested that such terms, though widely used, are highly problematic, masking ideological assumptions which concern social...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Aberdeen, School of Education
2008-11-01
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| Series: | Education in the North |
| Online Access: | https://abdn.ac.uk/eitn/journal/49 |