Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain: Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community

By Gill Richards

Book Overview

Explores the hopes and fears of girls within ex-coalmining communities using their own voices
Highlights how the groups of girls balanced their own aspirations with the educational opportunities perceived to be available to them
Suggests how schools should plan provisions to support aspirations and raise achievement

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319608991
• ISBN13: 9783319608990
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"