Sociology, Gender and Educational Aspirations

Girls and Their Ambitions
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9938-7
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Debate on the effects of class on educational attainment is well documented and typically centres on the reproductive nature of class whilst studies of the effect of class on educational aspirations also predict outcomes that see education reinforcing and reproducing a student's class background.

Despite a number of government initiatives to help raise higher education participation to 50% by 2010, for the working class numbers have altered little. Using data from an ethnographic case study of a low-achieving girls school the author explores aspirations and argues that whilst class is very powerful in explaining educational attainment, understanding educational aspirations is somewhat more complex. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to question and challenge popular assumptions surrounding class-based theory in making sense of girls aspirations and to question the usefulness of the continued over reliance of such broad categorisations by both academics and policy makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuller, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Class and Education
Chapter 3 The Low Aspirers
Chapter 4 The Middle Aspirers
Chapter 5 The High Aspirers
Chapter 6 Discussion: Exploring Within-Class Differences in Aspiration
Chapter 7 Conclusion

Appendix 1 The Participants
Appendix 2 Research Methodology
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Fuller works in the Institute of Education at the University of Reading.