Richards, Gill.
Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community / [electronic resource] :
by Gill Richards.
.- Cham :: Springer International Publishing :: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2018.,
.- X, 99 p., online resource.
-ISBN 9783319609003
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2524-6445
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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?.
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.
10.1007/978-3-319-60900-3 doi
Gender identity in education. Sociology. Gender and Education. Gender Studies. Sociology of Education. Sociology of Education. Social Structure, Social Inequality.