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Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain: Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community By Gill Richards
English | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 103 Pages | ISBN : 3319608991 | 1.22 MB
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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