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.

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 ach...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.