Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain - Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community

This book explores the aspirations of 'working class' girls' in an ex-mining community in the UK. It highlights the difficulties present in these 'post-industrial' settings, which are often areas of severe deprivation, and questions whether these place limitations on the achievements of the girls within the community. Based on an eight-year longitudinal study of girls in three primary schools and two secondary schools which differed in levels of attainment, the book examines the girls' initial aspirations, decision-making, and later achievements when in post-compulsory education. It will be compelling reading for students, academics and practitioners in Education, offering a unique appreciation of how working-class girls balance their own aspirations with the educational opportunities perceived to be available to them.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What do we know about girls' aspirations and achievement?.- Chapter 3. Methodology.- Chapter 4. Aspirations and expectations.- Chapter 5. Achieving aspirations: what did the girls do?.- Chapter 6. What else can schools do?.

Summary

This book explores the aspirations of 'working class' girls' in an ex-mining community in the UK. It highlights the difficulties present in these 'post-industrial' settings, which are often areas of severe deprivation, and questions whether these place limitations on the achievements of the girls within the community. Based on an eight-year longitudinal study of girls in three primary schools and two secondary schools which differed in levels of attainment, the book examines the girls' initial aspirations, decision-making, and later achievements when in post-compulsory education. It will be compelling reading for students, academics and practitioners in Education, offering a unique appreciation of how working-class girls balance their own aspirations with the educational opportunities perceived to be available to them.

Product details

• Authors: Gill Richards
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319869544
• ISBN: 978-3-31-986954-4
• No. of pages: 99
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 158 g
• Illustrations: X, 99 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; C, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Education, Sociology, Social Inequality, Social & ethical issues, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Gender studies, gender groups, Social research & statistics, Educational sociology, Education and sociology, Gender and Education, Gender identity in education