Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain [electronic resource] : Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community / by Gill Richards.

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Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain [electronic resource] : Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community / by Gill Richards.

9783319609003 (electronic book)
3319609009
9783319608990 (print)

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (x, 99 pages) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-60900-3 doi

LC212.9-LC212.93

370

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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