Book

Working class girls, education and post-industrial Britain : aspirations and reality in an ex-coalmining community

Richards, Gill, author

Overview

This text 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 work examines the girls' initial aspirations, decision-making, and later achievements when in post-compulsory education.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Girls Great Britain Social conditions 20th century. / Working class Great Britain History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9783319608990

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD8388.R53 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE