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Thinking Allowed: White Working Class Boys; French Thought

24/06/2015

White Working Class Boys; French Thought

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, White Working Class Boys; French Thought

White, working-class boys at school. Also, the French intellectual tradition.

White, working-class boys at school: Laurie Taylor explores their disengagement from education. Also, why do the French have such a grand, intellectual tradition?

White, working class boys at school: Laurie Taylor talks to Garth Stahl. Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of South Australia, and author of a new study about boys' underachievement in Britain. Why do so many disengage from education? They're joined by Heather Mendick, Reader in Education at Brunel University.

Also, the grand, French intellectual tradition. Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh, political scientist and writer, explores the prominence of thinkers in the life and history of France. From Voltaire to Foucault, how have intellectuals contributed to the distinctiveness of the nation?

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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