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

• Main Author: Richards, Gill (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education,
• Subjects: Gender identity in education.; Sociology.; Educational sociology.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Gender and Education.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of Education.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.
• Physical Description: X, 99 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319609003
• ISSN: 2524-6445
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60900-3

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.