Overview
- Explores the hopes and fears of girls within ex-coalmining communities using their own voices
- Highlights how the groups of girls balanced their own aspirations with the educational opportunities perceived to be available to them
- Suggests how schools should plan provisions to support aspirations and raise achievement
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)
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About this book
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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Book Title: Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain
Book Subtitle: Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community
Authors: Gill Richards
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60900-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60899-0Published: 19 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86954-4Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60900-3Published: 04 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2524-6445
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 99
Topics: Gender and Education, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Social Structure, Social Inequality