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Schooling Inequality
Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class
- 184 pages
- English
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About this book
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter university than their advantaged counterparts.
Drawing on unique new research gathered from three contrasting secondary schools in England, including interviews with children from three year groups and careers advisors, this book explores the aspirations, opportunities and experiences of young people from different social-class backgrounds against a backdrop of continuing inequalities in education.
By focusing both on the stories of young people and the schools themselves, the book sheds light on the institutional structures and practices that render young people more, or less, able to pursue their aspirations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Diane Reay
- Introduction
- 1 Reproduction: social class inequality in education
- 2 The three schools
- 3 Aspiration, aspiration, aspiration: āThe only thing theyāve forced me to do is keep my options openā
- 4 Knowledge, familiarity and physical proximity: āEveryone in my family has gone to university, I donāt see why I shouldnātā
- 5 Option blocks that block options (GCSEs)
- 6 Packages, facilitating subjects and ākeeping the options openā (A levels)
- 7 Institutional concerted cultivation
- 8 Aim lower: leashing aspirations and internalising notions of (in)ability
- 9 Jakeās story: a journey to reflexivity
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Questionnaire
- Appendix II: Parental Standard Occupational Classification 2010 groups
- Appendix III: Grand Hill Grammar careers event question sheet
- Appendix IV: Vignette sample
- Notes
- References
- Index