Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain : Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community / by Gill Richards.
Richards, Gill, author.
2018
LC212.9-LC212.93
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Title Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain : Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community / by Gill Richards.
Author Richards, Gill, author.
ISBN 9783319609003 (electronic book)
3319609009
9783319608990 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60900-3
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 99 pages) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-60900-3 doi
Call Number LC212.9-LC212.93
Dewey Decimal Classification 370
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in gender and education.
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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?

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