Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain : Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community /
Author / Creator: | Richards, Gill, author. |
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Imprint: | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 99 pages) : online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Palgrave studies in gender and education. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12573594 |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 99 pages) : online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783319609003 3319609009 9783319608990 |