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

ISBN-13: 9783319608990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 99 str.

Gill Richards

Opis

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.

Spis treści

​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?.

O autorze

Gill Richards is Professor of Special Education, Equity and Inclusion at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Prior to this, she trained as a teacher, working for 21 years in schools and colleges.