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In this final ethnographic chapter I concentrate on the ways in which age is imagined among the staff at Lakefield school, focusing primarily on chronologically younger teachers. In Part I of the chapter I establish how age is imagined between ‘older’ and ‘younger’ members of staff. In Part II, I move on to consider how age is imagined among the younger teachers in the school. In Part III of the chapter I then move on to consider how chronologically younger teachers in particular negotiate imaginings of age in their interactions with students.
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Alexander, P. (2020). Learning to Act Your Age in the Staffroom: Age Imaginaries in the Lives of ‘Younger Teachers’. In: Schooling and Social Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-38831-5_6
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